Colorado suspect was brilliant science student  —  DENVER (AP) — James Eagen Holmes came from a well-tended San Diego enclave of two-story homes with red-tiled roofs, where neighbors recall him as a clean-cut, studious young man of sparing words.  —  Tall and dark-haired …

Leftist journalist Alexander Cockburn dies at 71  —  Alexander Cockburn's books include the bestselling “Whiteout,” with Jeffrey St. Clair, and “A Short History of Fear.”  —  Alexander Cockburn, the leftist journalist, has died.  The 71-year-old had been living in Berlin and fighting cancer.

With Extreme Prejudice  —  How ABC News “investigates” a horrific crime.  —  “An off-duty Los Angeles police officer and three bodybuilder friends have been arrested for allegedly punching and kicking a New York man in an alley near a cafe on West Hollywood's Restaurant Row,” the Los Angeles Times reported July 30, 1991.

IS MITT ROMNEY BUYING TWITTER FOLLOWERS?  —  I'm not saying he bought them, but Romney's follower stats have taken a sharp and sudden rise since Friday 5PM EST. Could it be a weekend blitz?  Twitter noticed.  Personally, I think this is too obvious for the Romney campaign to have done.

Sadly, Nation Knows Exactly How Colorado Shooting's Aftermath Will Play Out  —  WASHINGTON—Americans across the nation confirmed today that, unfortunately, due to their extreme familiarity with the type of tragedy that occurred in a Colorado movie theater last night, they sadly know exactly …

Obama effort spends more in June than it takes in  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid a heavy barrage of advertising by opposing “super” political groups, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign spent more than it collected in June.  While outraised again by Republican Mitt Romney …

Post Aurora: Don't expect new gun laws  —  I served as Democratic policy director for the Colorado Senate minority in 2003 — when the state legislature passed the gun law package that is now the law in Colorado.  —  These bills had been delayed since the 1999 Columbine shootings.

In ‘Black Liquor,’ a Cautionary Tale for Deficit Reduction  —  WASHINGTON — As a member of the “Gang of Six,” Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho has emerged as something of a hero among advocates of bipartisanship, one of three conservative Republicans working with three Democrats to cut the deficit …