Note to the House GOP: Kill the Bill  —  The House Republican leadership is having trouble getting 218 votes for its immigration bill.  The policy objections to the bill seem convincing to me—among them that it seems to appropriate more money, on a pro-rated monthly basis …

Joe Scarborough turns on Israel  —  Joe Scarborough on Thursday had harsh words for Israel's actions in Gaza, saying the country was engaging in “indiscriminate” killing.  —  “This is asinine,” said the MSNBC host and former Republican congressman.  “This continued killing of women …

State: ‘No American is proud’ of CIA enhanced interrogation program  —  A forthcoming report on the defunct CIA enhanced interrogation program “tells a story of which no American is proud,” according to leaked State Department talking points.  —  The White House on Wednesday accidentally emailed …

Begging for Impeachment  —  To improve its standing with voters, the White House tries to drum up some trouble for itself  —  At 10:02 on Friday evening, July 25, I received the following personal message from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: “THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA IS NOW A REAL POSSIBILITY.”

Brother, Can You Spare a Job?  —  I spent a week as a homeless person, looking for work.The ‘California Comeback’ has a long way to go.

CIA improperly accessed Senate computers, agency finds  —  WASHINGTON — CIA employees improperly accessed computers used by the Senate Intelligence Committee to compile a report on the agency's now defunct detention and interrogation program, an internal CIA investigation has determined.

Blogger fired from language school over ‘homophonia’  —  Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there.

Exclusive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby Dissent Yahoo News with Katie Couric 17 hrs ago  —  Katie Couric  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, fresh off a bruising loss in the Hobby Lobby birth control case last month, told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric in an exclusive interview …

Books test market for Hillary Clinton hostility  —  It's the summer of anti-Clinton books.  —  There may be no clearer sign of Hillary Clinton's political reemergence than the flurry of new books critical of her — two in the past month alone, with another pair coming soon.

THE ABORTION MINISTRY OF DR. WILLIE PARKER  —  In Mississippi, there is only one clinic where a woman can go if she needs an abortion.  The state is trying to close it down.  At that clinic, there is a doctor who tends to the needs of these women, and he has to fly in from out of state to do it.

ON CERTIFICATION FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS  —  Opinion Filed: Oral Argument:  —  Source of Appeal:  —  Court:  —  Circuit  —  Dane  —  Judge:  —  Justices:  —  Concurred:  —  CROOKS, J., concurs.  (Opinion filed.)  —  Dissented:  —  BRADLEY, J., ABRAHAMSON, C.J., dissent.

Immigration is now President Obama's worst issue  —  Immigration has emerged as perhaps President Obama's worst issue — definitely for today, and maybe of his entire presidency — when it comes to public perception.  —  A new poll from AP-GfK shows more than two-thirds of Americans …

The New Secret History of the Obamacare Deniers  —  A bizarre health-care fantasy springs to life.  —  Shares  —  Last week, the latest desperation lawsuit to stop Obamacare — which had previously been laughed out of court — got new life when two Republican-appointed justices sided with the plaintiff.

Yes, It Could Happen Again  —  Pessimism is a useful prism through which to view the affairs of states.  Their ambition to gain, retain, and project power is never sated.  Optimism, toward which Americans are generally inclined, leads to rash predictions of history's ending in global consensus and the banishment of war.

No More Mr. Tough Guy  —  Barack Obama is not a tough guy.  Everybody rolls him.  He's a wimp, a weak sister; he won't stand up for himself or his country.  Vladimir Putin, a true tough guy, blows planes out of the air, won't apologize, walks around half-naked.

Heritage Action Issues New Call to Arms  —  Heritage Action, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, spent last year's August recess banging the drum for Congress to defund the 2010 health law, barnstorming the country to fuel conservatives' discontent with GOP leaders in Washington.

John Kerry is right  —  Robert Kennedy, speaking of John Kennedy, using words they would both probably use to praise John Kerry, said that JFK's favorite quote was this: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”

Paul Ryan Says Climate Change Is Just An Excuse For Obama To Raise Taxes  —  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Wednesday that “climate change occurs no matter what,” but that the EPA's recent efforts to reduce emissions from existing power plants are “outside of the confines of the law,” and …

Our Blind Spot About Guns  —  If we had the same auto fatality rate today that we had in 1921, by my calculations we would have 715,000 Americans dying annually in vehicle accidents.  —  Instead, we've reduced the fatality rate by more than 95 percent — not by confiscating cars, but by regulating them and their drivers sensibly.

Suicide Bomber From U.S. Came Home Before Attack  —  WASHINGTON — When Moner Mohammad Abusalha drove a truck packed with explosives into a restaurant in northern Syria in May, American authorities conceded that they knew little about how a young man who grew up a basketball-obsessed teenager …