Aurora ‘Dark Knight’ Shooting Suspect Identified: James Holmes  —  The young man who is in custody after allegedly gunning down 12 people in a mass shooting spree overnight in Aurora, Colorado has been identified as local resident James Holmes, according to federal authorities.

Defining Moments  —  It's as if President Obama climbed into a tank, put on his helmet, talked about how his foray into Cambodia was seared in his memory, looked at his watch, misspelled “potato” and pardoned Richard Nixon all in the same day.  It's fun to imagine the hand-wringing that must …

Romney kept reins, bargained hard on severance  —  Shortly after Mitt Romney took a leave of absence from Bain Capital to run the Olympics in February 1999, he made a trip to Palm Beach, Fla. The firm Romney founded was meeting to celebrate its 15th anniversary as well as the men he had helped make extraordinarily wealthy.

Noonan: A Remedial Communication Class  —  Lessons from three recent failures, at the Olympics and on the campaign trail.  —  Thoughts on three recent failures to communicate:  —  In the controversy surrounding the uniforms of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, the problem isn't China.

Presidential campaign fundraising surpasses $1 billion  —  WASHINGTON - Less than four months until Election Day, the battle for the White House already has crossed the $1 billion mark — as the presidential candidates, political parties and the two super PACs closely aligned with President Obama …

Pathos of the Plutocrat  —  “Let me tell you about the very rich.  They are different from you and me.”  So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald — and he didn't just mean that they have more money.  What he meant instead, at least in part, was that many of the very rich expect a level of deference …

Say the Magic Word  —  How partisans gave special meaning to Obama's words, “you didn't build that.”  —  President Obama speaking in Roanoke, Va. on July 13.  In the following days, conservatives jumped on his remarks.  —  Why did it take so long for Mitt Romney's campaign to realize …

GHEI: Crop cronyism  —  Trillion-dollar farm bill is the latest example of what's wrong with our economy  —  Combine a Midwestern drought with pointless ethanol mandates, and the supplies of corn inevitably dwindle, driving prices sky high.  Politicians like Sen. Claire McCaskill …

Legal Battles Erupt Over Tough Voter ID Laws  —  PHILADELPHIA — Four years ago as Viviette Applewhite, now 93, was making her way through her local Acme supermarket, her pocketbook hanging from her shoulder, a thief sliced the bag from its straps.  —  A former hotel housekeeper, Ms. Applewhite …

Explaining Obama's Ressentiment  —  Unearned success is the central theme of his life story.  —  The Romney campaign is out with a very effective new ad illuminating and responding to President Obama's disparagement of individual achievement.  The ad constructs a dialogue between Obama and Jack Gilchrist …

Did the state make you great?  —  “If you've got a business — you didn't build that.  Somebody else made that happen.”  — Barack Obama,  —  Roanoke, Va., July 13  —  And who might that somebody else be?  Government, says Obama.  It built the roads you drive on.  It provided the teacher who inspired you.

Where Obama Shines  —  It won't help him win many votes this year, but it should be noted that Barack Obama has been a good foreign policy president.  He, Vice President Joseph Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the rest of his team have created a style of policy making that is flexible …

Morning Jay: Are the Polls Skewed Toward Obama?  —  A topic that inevitably receives a lot of focus during election season is the partisan spread of the major media polls.  Conservatives regularly complain that the polls are tilted against their side, and thus favor the Democrats.  —  They have a point.