Feinstein: Someone at White House is behind recent intel leaks  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Monday that someone at the White House was responsible for the recent leaks of classified information.  —  “I think the White House …

The Divine Miss M  —  What I find most fascinating about Michele Bachmann — and there are many, many more where she came from — is that she presents herself as a godly woman, humbly devoted to her Christian faith.  I'd like to meet that god, and I'd like to understand that Christianity.

Obama Fights Back Against 'You Didn't Build That' Attacks  —  Ten days after Mitt Romney turned President Obama's remarks about public investment in infrastructure into an attack on the president's support for American free enterprise system, Team Obama is finally pushing back.

Most Say They Already Know Enough about the Candidates  —  Democrats Want to Hear More about Romney's Tax Returns  —  OVERVIEW  —  With more than three months to go before Election Day, most voters already feel that there's little left to learn about the presidential candidates.

Bloomberg's gun-control idea: Cops go on strike  —  By GERRY SHIELDS in DC and BETH DEFALCO in NY  —  Mayor Bloomberg ramped up his gun-control rhetoric to a whole new level last night, saying he's surprised cops don't walk off their jobs until the public forces lawmakers to get guns off the streets.

Letter to the Honorable John Boehner providing an estimate for H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act  —  CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have estimated the direct spending and revenue effects of H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act, as passed by the House of Representatives on July 11, 2012.

James Holmes Received $26K Grant From Bethesda-Based National Institutes of Health  —  WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) - James Holmes, the alleged gunman in the recent theater shooting that left 12 dead in Aurora, Colo., was previously awarded a $26,000 federal grant.  —  PHOTOS: James Holmes First Court Appearance

An Academic Auto-da-Fé  —  A sociologist whose data find fault with same-sex relationships is savaged by the progressive orthodoxy  —  Whoever said inquisitions and witch hunts were things of the past?  A big one is going on now.  The sociologist Mark Regnerus …

TPMMuckraker  —  Ahead Of Voter ID Trial, Pennsylvania Admits There's No In-Person Voter Fraud  —  As the Justice Department investigates Pennsylvania's voter ID law on the federal level, a coalition of civil rights groups is gearing up for a state trial starting Wednesday examining whether …

Why Gary Johnson could cost Obama or Romney a win in 2012  —  Back in May, when Americans Elect, the group formed to put a bipartisan third party ticket on the 2012 presidential ballot, closed shop, everyone stopped talking about whether a third party candidate would enter the race in 2012 …

Victim's Brother To MSNBC: The Families Won't “Politicize This” For Your Gun Restriction Agenda … Note how Michael Eric “Where's My (Black) Thesaurus” Dyson sets up the gun control question with a question about the “inspiring” appearance by The Doer Of All Good Things.  —  Sign-Up to receive Updates from TH

Desperately Seeking Mitt  —  They say Mitt Romney is a robot.  They say he is an unusually handsome cyborg.  They say if you opened up his chest, you'd see a pile of crackling circuitry or maybe a bale of old straw.  And as we prepare (finally!) to crown him the Republican nominee in Tampa …

ABC President: Ross report hurts coverage  —  ABC News president Ben Sherwood told staff today that last Friday's incorrect report by Brian Ross detracts from the network's otherwise excellent coverage of the Colarado theater shooting, network sources tell POLITICO.

New Obama Ad Was Filmed In the West Wing  —  President Obama's newest campaign commercial was filmed inside the West Wing of the White House, an act that campaign finance experts and good government groups generally agreed was legal if not particularly commendable.

The Myth of the Libertarian Internet … - Yglesias: The Flaw in Obama's Idea To Tax the Rich To “Invest in Manufacturing”  — Sally Ride Was Amazing, but She Should Not Have Been the First U.S. Woman in Space  — Has the Sex Industry Finally Learned To Cater to Women?  — What's That Thing?

Republicans blast Pentagon for allowing military uniforms in gay pride parade  —  Republican lawmakers are blasting the Pentagon's decision to allow troops to march in uniform at a San Diego gay pride parade last week.  —  Two senior Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services committees …

The U.S. Economic Policy Debate Is a Sham  —  Watching Democrats and Republicans hash out their differences in the public arena, it's easy to get the impression that there's a deep disagreement among reasonable people about how to manage the U.S. economy.  —  Nothing could be further from the truth.