Gates Arrest  —  Case Heats Up As Police Organizations Criticize Obama For Jumping into the Controversy  —  The police sergeant who arrested Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week in his own home may be considering a defamation lawsuit against Gates who has implied his arrest was racially motivated.

The Gates Rohrsach  —  The Boston Herald: “911, police tapes key in Gates case: Officials mull release of recorded evidence.”  —  The Boston Globe: “Accomplished, but not insulated: Some successful blacks find Gates's case all too familiar.”  —  All I know about Sunday's arrest …

Professor's Arrest Tests Beliefs on Racial Progress  —  CHICAGO — Ralph Medley, a retired professor of philosophy and English who is black, remembers the day he was arrested on his own property, a rental building here in Hyde Park where he was doing some repair work for tenants.

The Healthcare Timeout is Fine.  —  To hear the defeatism and paranoia on some liberal blogs this afternoon, the “timeout” that Harry Reid and the Senate called on health care today — they won't vote on the measure before the August recess — is just about the stupidest thing since Chris Webber …

Why Obamacare Is Sinking  —  What happened to Obamacare?  Rhetoric met reality.  As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health-care nirvana: more coverage, less cost.  —  But you can't fake it in legislation.