Team Bush in a Fog  —  As Ed Kilgore noted on Friday, Jeb Bush's campaign is facing tough times right now.  It has been widely reported that the Bush family and Jeb's major donors are getting together in Houston this weekend and its not entirely clear whether their time will be spent rallying …

Republicans Prefer an Outsider Candidate, AP-GfK Poll Finds  —  A huge majority of Republican voters prefer an outsider candidate to one with experience in Washington, and most see political rookies Donald Trump and Ben Carson as possible general election winners, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.

Obama fuels the flames of the anti-cop movement  —  At a White House discussion about improving the  relationship between police departments and  black Americans, President Obama declared that “the moment is here.”  —  He meant a chance for big change, and that's the problem.

IRS' Lois Lerner Skates; An Ugly Precedent Is Set  —  The Law: The Justice Department declined to file charges against IRS enforcer Lois Lerner, who singled out Tea Party groups for scrutiny on political grounds.  With no accountability, it's now open season on dissidents.

Bernie Sanders Blasts Clinton Record on Gay Rights, Keystone, Free Trade  —  Senator Bernie Sanders delivered his sharpest criticism to date of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton tonight at the Iowa Democratic Party's historic Jefferson-Jackson dinner.  —  The Vermont senator …

Helmet camera footage shows joint U.S. Delta Force-Kurdish raid to rescue Islamic State hostages  —  A video first posted Saturday by Rudaw, a Kurdish news site, purportedly shows footage of the joint U.S.-Kurdish raid that freed about 70 hostages from an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq early Thursday morning.

Maureen O'Hara, Irish-Born Actress Known as Queen of Technicolor, Dies at 95  —  Maureen O'Hara, the spirited Irish-born actress who played strong-willed, tempestuous beauties opposite all manner of adventurers in escapist movies of the 1940s and '50s, died on Saturday at her home in Boise, Idaho.

Man arrested after trying to record Jefferson Sheriff Newell Normand and his breakfast club; sheriff suspects David Vitter behind it  —  The arrest could have been ripped from a Hollywood script, playing out on the eve of a statewide election.  But was it a drama or a comedy?

On duty, under fire  —  A Wisconsin trooper faced down a gunman who planned to go out fighting  —  Stopped in his patrol cruiser, Trooper Trevor Casper searched for a gray Toyota Corolla on a busy stretch of Highway 41.  Behind the wheel was Steven Timothy Snyder, a bank robber and killer on the run.

A Five-Nation Plan to End the Syrian Crisis  —  I HAVE known Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, since he was a college student in London, and have spent many hours negotiating with him since he has been in office.  This has often been at the request of the United States government during …