Had Enough “Hope and Change”?  —  One of my daughters drove up north with some friends to stay overnight at a lake cabin earlier this weekend.  Somewhere northeast of Minneapolis they passed a billboard that said, “Had enough ‘HOPE AND CHANGE’?”  The billboard depicted a pair of hands feeding the Constitution into a shredder.

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World  —  Shown here is NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.  (YouTube)  —  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Dow Repeats Great Depression Pattern: Charts  —  The Dow Jones Industrial Average is repeating a pattern that appeared just before markets fell during the Great Depression, Daryl Guppy, CEO at Guppytraders.com, told CNBC Monday.  —  “Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it …

Angle Sends Cease-And-Desist To Reid — For Reposting Her Own Website  —  Sharron Angle has resorted to an unusual maneuver to counter Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's attacks on her past quotes and positions, the Reid campaign has announced: A cease-and-desist letter …

Blistering heat expected in Northeast  —  New York (CNN) — A heat wave of historic proportions could strike some Northeastern states as forecasters warn of prolonged triple-digit temperatures that could trigger “a dangerous situation,” the National Weather Service advised Monday.

Arizona Candidate: Cut Off Power to Illegal Immigrants  —  Ratcheting up the debate over immigration in his state, a candidate for the Arizona utilities commission is threatening to cut off power and gas to illegal immigrants if he's elected.  —  “It is not a right.

AP owes China an apology  —  From an Associated Press article today on the conviction in China of an American citizen accused of spying and collecting “state secrets”: … A few cigarette stubs into a forearm for a handful of days?  That's it?  That's “torture”?

CNN Editor Mourns Death of Hezbollah's Spiritual Leader  —  How did CNN senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr celebrate July 4?  By mourning the passing of Hezbollah's Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.  Here's what the CNN editor posted on her Twitter account:

“Losing Our Cool”: The high price of staying cool  —  How air conditioning changed the American landscape, transformed our politics, and is endangering our health  —  In the last half century, air conditioning has joined fireworks, swimming pools and charred hamburgers as a ubiquitous ingredient of an American summer.

Environmentalist faces jail for hanging banner in Senate office building  —  A 60 year-old environmental activist who hung two banners in a government building will be sentenced Tuesday — and faces up to three years in prison.  —  Bloomfield, NJ resident Ted Glick will be sentenced Tuesday …

Clyburn says Greene's candidacy in South Carolina designed to stir trouble  —  House Majority Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) theorized that an operative ran unemployed Army veteran Alvin Greene's (D) South Carolina Senate campaign to create a “mess.”  —  Greene managed to win the June 8 Democratic primary …

Senate bill to repeal health reform lacks backing from GOP leaders  —  Although they've called repeatedly for repeal of the Democrats' new health reform law, some senior Senate Republicans have not endorsed a bill that would actually do it.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) …

Tea party gatherings on the Fourth mix the educational and the patriotic  —  BEALETON, VA. — “Tea party” activists across the nation tried to put the “independence” back in Independence Day this weekend with festivals and other gatherings focused on the Constitution — and how to use it for political gain.

Fury as doctor who said Lockerbie bomber would die in three months admits: He could live for a decade  —  The cancer expert who predicted the Lockerbie bomber would die within three months of his release from prison has admitted he could live for another ten years or more.

Agency Agreed Wildlife Risk From Oil Was ‘Low’  —  The federal agency charged with protecting endangered species like the brown pelican and the Kemp's ridley sea turtle signed off on the Minerals Management Service's conclusion that deepwater drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico posed …

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Barack Obama: The great jobs killer  —  As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, “Obama, there you go again.”  —  The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs.  He claims jobs have been created.  But so far the score …

Flag mural on Sunol Grade restored to Old Glory  —  The flag is still there.  Or, rather, it's back.  —  After an absence of a few days, a mural of an American flag has returned to a hillside above Interstate 680 in Sunol — just in time for the Fourth of July.

On The Economist's Cover, Only a Part of the Picture  —  It was the ideal metaphor for a politically troubled president.  —  There was President Obama on the cover of the June 19 issue of The Economist, standing alone on a Louisiana beach, head down, looking forlornly at the ground.