Rand Paul: 'I don't think shutting down the government is a good idea'  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that Republicans should “stand up and fight” against ObamaCare, but warned that forcing a government shutdown over funding for the law is the wrong strategy.

Kelly: ‘No question’ people will die if stop-and-frisk ends  —  New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says there's “no question” more people would die if the city's next mayor ends the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which a federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional.

Time Magazine Reporter's Shocking Julian Assange Tweet  —  A TIME magazine reporter caused ire on Twitter Saturday night when he said that he “can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out” Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.  —  Michael Grunwald's tweet, since deleted, was quickly met with outrage and bewilderment.

Egypt: Islamists hit Christian churches  —  CAIRO (AP) — After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like “prisoners of war” before a Muslim woman offered them refuge.  Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.

I left my job over a computer-desktop hoodie  —  A year and a half ago, a news story exploded out of Sanford, Fla. George Zimmerman, an armed, 28-year-old man of mixed white and Hispanic ancestry, followed and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American.

The Past's Future Republican  —  LET Rand Paul have his epic filibuster and Ted Cruz his scowling threats to shut down the government.  Let Chris Christie thunder to a second term as the governor of New Jersey, his hubris flowering as his ultimate designs on the White House take shape.

McCain charges U.S. lost ‘credibility’ on Egypt  —  The United States has “no credibility” in the Middle East due to the Obama administration's inaction in Egypt, Sen. John McCain said Sunday.  —  The administration previously threatened to cut off aid if there was a coup in Egypt …

Obamacare's hurdles higher than Medicare's  —  President Barack Obama says he's not worried that all the Obamacare fights will kill the law — because people fought the creation of Medicare and Social Security too, and now they're more popular than ever.  —  Democrats have always wanted …

Money, Money, Money, Money, MONEY!  —  WASHINGTON — CLINTON nostalgia is being replaced by Clinton neuralgia.  —  Why is it that America's roil family always seems better in abstract than in concrete?  The closer it gets to running the world once more, the more you are reminded of all the things that bugged you the last time around.

Young Girl Tells Republican Congressman Her Father Is An Undocumented Immigrant  —  “We have laws, and we need to follow those laws and ya know, that's where we're at.”  —  youtube.com  —  A young girl told Tennessee Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais at a town hall last week that her father was an undocumented immigrant.

The bully in the U.S. Senate  —  Dick Durbin's still on a pout over the Florida verdict  —  Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois thinks the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups hasn't gone far enough, and he wants to help.  He's doing some bullying of his own.