A Bow to Charleston  —  A Northerner bows, deeply, to the South:  —  I have never seen anything like what I saw on television this afternoon.  Did you hear the statements made at the bond hearing of the alleged Charleston, S.C., shooter?  —  Nine beautiful people slaughtered Wednesday …

After ‘no’ vote on trade, Meadows loses subcommittee chair  —  House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has removed Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) from his post as a subcommittee chairman, according to a Chaffetz spokesperson.  —  The removal comes …

Dylann Roof Photos and a Manifesto Are Posted on Website  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dylann Roof spat on and burned the American flag, but waved the Confederate.  —  He posed for pictures wearing a No. 88 T-shirt, had 88 Facebook friends and wrote that number — white supremacist code for “Heil Hitler”— in the South Carolina sand.

Gay Marriage's Moment  —  REMEMBER the AIDS crisis?  If you lived in a big American city during its spread, you were witness to constant sorrow and countless examples of gay people treated as second-class citizens.  —  One was almost certainly this: the steadfast, heartbroken man being shut …

Influence of Money in Politics a Top Concern for Voters  —  Americans express far more alarm about the influence of money in politics than the fact that another Bush and Clinton are running for the White House, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.  —  Asked to rank their top concerns …

Arizona sheriff sending armed posse into black churches  —  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will send armed posses of volunteers to 60 black churches around Phoenix, following the deadly attack on a historically black church in Charleston.  Arpaio's office has previously been accused of racial profiling.

Love and Terror in the Black Church  —  AT the sprawling Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas one day last spring, I was met by five men with earpieces who escorted me to the pastor's office.  As I prepared to preach that morning, a rolling phalanx of bodyguards shadowed my every move …

Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio's backyard battle royal  —  Florida's Miami-Dade GOP, which Jeb Bush built into a powerhouse, may not be big enough to fit two presidential candidates.  —  MIAMI — Jeb Bush built the Miami-Dade Republican Party.  And now Marco Rubio wants to take possession.

Rick Perry calls Charleston shooting an ‘accident’  —  An aide to Rick Perry claims the GOP presidential candidate misspoke when he referred to the mass shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., as “an accident.”  —  Speaking with Steve Malzberg of Newsmax …