Mitt Romney's painfully bad week  —  Editor's note: David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor.  He is the author of seven books, including a new novel, “Patriots.”  —  (CNN) — By any measure, the Mitt Romney for president campaign has had a painfully bad week.

Memorandum  —  Location  —  To: Interested Parties  —  From: Neil Newhouse - Romney Campaign Pollster  —  Re: The State Of The Race: Ballot Narrowing Despite Obama Attack Ads  —  Four years ago today, candidate Barack Obama led John …

Norquist rebuts Coburn, says he ‘stands alone’ on taxes  —  Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist on Monday called Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) a liar after the senator blasted him in the pages of The New York Times.  —  Coburn's op-ed piece argues that Senate Republicans have already violated Norquist's strict …

Republicans Turn Against John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court  —  Democrats now positive about both  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are now much more negative than they were seven years ago, with the most recent reading coming soon …

Barack Obama Hates This Country  —  RUSH: Roanoke, Virginia.  This is Friday night.  This did not get a lot of coverage at the time.  It did not get a lot of coverage over the weekend.  The Drive-Bys did not focus on this much.  Fox News, at some point, did bring it to people's attention.

‘Witness 9’ tells prosecutors Zimmerman molested her for years  —  A woman told authorities that while they were children, murder suspect George Zimmerman sexually molested her for a decade, according to prosecution records released today.  —  The woman, identified only as “witness 9,” …

Jonah Falcon, Man With World's Largest Penis, Frisked By TSA At California Airport … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Anatomical Wonders, TSA, Video, 13.5 Inches, Jonah Falcon, San Francisco International Airport, Stop And Frisk, X-Ray Body Scanners, Airport Screening, Largest Penis …

Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo's Chief  —  Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next C.E.O. of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America.  —  The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google …

Bain not going away—Kucinich launching PAC—Bush 43 unveiling book tomorrow—Gillespie says Mitt retired retroactively—Dems hit Mourdock for opposing auto bailout  —  ROMNEY TO HIT OBAMA ON CRONYISM: Boston desperately wants to find a way to put the president on the defensive …

Probe cites officials for soliciting prostitutes, accepting gifts, FOIA docs reveal  —  Treasury Department officials have been cited for soliciting prostitutes, breaking conflict-of-interest rules and accepting gifts from corporate executives, according to the findings of official government investigations.

Pawlenty Looked at as Romney Running Mate  —  EAGAN, Minn. — It was four years ago this summer, when Tim Pawlenty ranked high on the list of John McCain's potential running mates, and Mr. Pawlenty and his wife, Mary, were plowing through a voluminous questionnaire probing deep into their finances …

Lt. Governor speaks out about sex scandal accusations  —  Lt. Governor Carroll made the comments Saturday in Orange Park, at the opening of a campaign office for Mitt Romney.  —  Carletha Cole claims she walked in on a sexual encounter between Carroll and Carroll's travel aide, Beatriz Ramos.

Latest Word on the Trail?  I Take It Back  —  The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative.  —  They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under …

It's True: Corporations Are People  —  What else could they be?  Buildings don't hire people.  Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer.  —  Here's a new party trick.  Want to be accused of being a member of a satanic cult?

Romney Suggests Releasing Additional Tax Returns Could Be Politically Damaging  —  Mitt Romney appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to respond to the growing number of conservatives who are calling on the former Massachusetts governor to release more of his tax returns.

Retail Sales decline 0.5% in June  —  On a monthly basis, retail sales were down 0.5% from May to June (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 3.8% from June 2011.  From the Census Bureau report: … Ex-autos, retail sales declined 0.4% in June.  —  Click on graph for larger image.