Health Care Overhaul Is Still No Hit With Public  —  WASHINGTON — On the day President Obama took the final step in turning the Affordable Care Act into law, his senior adviser, David Axelrod, predicted the public would eventually embrace his ambitious effort at health care reform.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hero  —  I am glad that John Roberts, the Chief Justice, voted to uphold almost all of the Affordable Care Act.  But the stance of humble gratitude toward Roberts that's been assumed by many in the past day is beginning to be a bit much.

Friday night news dump: White House salaries edition  —  The White House released its annual report to Congress on staff salaries.  At 4:39 p.m. on Friday.  —  A quick review found the White House payroll appears to have grown since last year, going from $37.1 million in 2011 to $37.8 million in 2012.

OBAMA CAMPAIGN CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY ... WITH FUNDRAISER IN PARIS  —  Apparently tiring of US soil as a source of campaign dollars, the Obama campaign is headed overseas — with its celebrity friends in tow.  The European Obama campaign starts next week in Paris on July 4 …

Egypt's Morsi defies military in fiery speech  —  President-elect takes symbolic oath of office and says “no institution is above the people” on eve of his inauguration.  —  Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president-elect, took a symbolic oath of office during a rousing speech in Cairo …

SEAL training range won't show woman as target  —  The Navy will not use a target depicting a Muslim woman holding a gun at a new training range for SEALs in Virginia Beach.  —  The announcement came hours after the Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Pentagon to remove the target.

Obama Contributor, Who Helped Enact Assault-Weapons Ban, Ran ‘Fast and Furious’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Dennis K. Burke, who as a lawyer for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1990s was a key player behind the enactment of the 1994 assault-weapons ban, and who then went …

Obama's ‘Outsourcer’ Overreach  —  The president's campaign fails to back up its claims that Romney ‘shipped jobs’ overseas.  —  Obama accuses Romney in a series of TV ads of being a “corporate raider” who “shipped jobs to China and Mexico,” asking if voters want to elect an “outsourcer in chief.”

Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to ‘run away’ and ‘hide’ from gunmen  —  A pocket card handed out to Homeland Security employees in April detailing how they should handle an “active shooter” situation.  —  Border Patrol agents in Arizona are blasting their bosses for telling them …

Obama administration considers turning Taliban detainees over to Afghanistan  —  The Obama administration is considering a new gambit to restart peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan that would send several Taliban detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba …

Mississippi Tea Party Chairman Calls For Open Rebellion Against Federal Government After Obamacare Ruling  —  Of all the right-wing meltdowns following yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, this statement put out by the chairman …

TPMMuckraker  —  Texas GOP's 2012 Platform Opposes Teaching Of ‘Critical Thinking Skills’  —  The Republican Party of Texas' recently adopted 2012 platform contains a plank that opposes the teaching of “critical thinking skills” in schools.  The party says it was a mistake …