Holder Floats Possibility of Racial Profiling Suit Against Arizona  —  Attorney General Eric Holder speaks, Friday, June 11, 2010, at the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse in Atlanta.  (AP)  —  Attorney General Eric Holder, just days after filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law …

White House: Republicans could win control of House  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans could win control of the House of Representatives in elections in November, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs acknowledged on Sunday.  —  “There is no doubt there are enough seats at play …

Lacking All Conviction  —  Atrios: … I have no idea what they're thinking.  It would be one thing if polls suggested a tolerable outcome in November, so that playing it safe could possibly make sense as a political strategy.  But that's not the way it is; and it's hard to see what possible motivation there is for pulling punches.

26 Year Old Woman Raped and Murdered by Basij Members for “Bad Hijab”  —  According to sources, this was the last picture Elnaz Babazadeh uploaded as her Facebook profile picture.  —  According to HRANA, Elnaz Babazadeh, a 26 year old woman was raped and murdered by Basij forces in the city of Tabriz (northwestern Iran) last week.

Dems plan attack over GOP meeting with business leaders  —  Congressional Democrats believe the House GOP plan to meet with business and trade lobbyists in the Capitol this week has provided them with yet another opening to attack Republicans for cozying up to big business.

Scientists expected Obama administration to be friendlier  —  A culture of politics trumping science, many say, persists despite the president's promises.  The use of potentially toxic dispersants to fight the gulf oil spill is cited as just one example.  —  John Holdren, director …

Holder: Politics has Delayed KSM Trial  —  Attorney General Says Ruling Out Civilian Trial Would Make Country “Much Weaker”; Says Politics Also Delaying Gitmo Closure  —  (CBS) In an exclusive interview with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer on CBS' “Face the Nation,” …

Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki puts ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed’ cartoonist Molly Norris on execution hitlist  —  A charismatic terror leader linked to the botched Times Square car bomb has placed the Seattle cartoonist who launched “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” on an execution hitlist.

How facts backfire  —  Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains  —  It's one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one.  “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government …

Sarah PAC steps into the big leagues  —  A new financial report filed Sunday evening showed Sarah Palin's political action committee has taken its fundraising to a higher level - and suggests that she has begun building a more sophisticated political operation in place of a bare-bones …

IRAN: Merchants continue to protest government's proposed tax hike  —  All eyes in Iran are on the bazaar, the nation's traditional marketplaces, where tensions have peaked over a proposed tax hike that has fused with other strains of discontent against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Pawlenty for President?  —  Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is a contender for the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination.  No secret there; he's been spending time in both New Hampshire and Iowa.  Pawlenty is, in my view, a serious competitor for the nomination.

‘The Crisis at Which We Are Arrived’  —  Don't fear the Tea Parties. … We are not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment.  But we have arrived at a genuine crisis, or a set of crises, and we may well be at a decisive moment for the country.  —  This sense of crisis is what animates the Tea Parties.

Volcker Pushes for Reform, Regretting Past Silence  —  JUST before the Fourth of July weekend, Paul A. Volcker packed his fishing gear and set off for his annual outing to the Canadian wilds to cast for Atlantic salmon.  —  He left behind a group of legislators in Washington still trying …