Local Tea Party Leader: ‘I Hope The Supreme Court Justices Get Colon Cancer’  —  Conservatives have had a series of extreme reactions to the Supreme Court's Thursday decision to uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare's individual health care mandate: from charging that Chief Justice John …

Disturbing e-mails could spell more trouble for Penn State officials  —  (CNN) — With convicted serial child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky behind bars, new questions are surfacing about what Penn State officials knew about a 2001 incident involving the former assistant football coach's encounter …

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hero  —  I am glad that John Roberts, the Chief Justice, voted to uphold almost all of the Affordable Care Act.  But the stance of humble gratitude toward Roberts that's been assumed by many in the past day is beginning to be a bit much.

SEAL training range won't show woman as target  —  The Navy will not use a target depicting a Muslim woman holding a gun at a new training range for SEALs in Virginia Beach.  —  The announcement came hours after the Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Pentagon to remove the target.

OBAMA CAMPAIGN CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY ... WITH FUNDRAISER IN PARIS  —  Apparently tiring of US soil as a source of campaign dollars, the Obama campaign is headed overseas — with its celebrity friends in tow.  The European Obama campaign starts next week in Paris on July 4 …

Joe Williams to leave POLITICO  —  Joe Williams, the POLITICO reporter who was suspended last week for controversial remarks he had made on television and Twitter, will leave his job.  —  “After some cordial discussions, Joe Williams and I mutually decided that the best step for him is to begin …

Friday night news dump: White House salaries edition  —  The White House released its annual report to Congress on staff salaries.  At 4:39 p.m. on Friday.  —  A quick review found the White House payroll appears to have grown since last year, going from $37.1 million in 2011 to $37.8 million in 2012.

Millions without power as storms pound U.S. following record-setting heat  —  (CNN) — Nearly 4 million homes lost power early Saturday across the Midwest as a fierce line of thunderstorms and winds pounded the region after record-setting temperatures.  —  The storms moved east …

Health Care Overhaul Is Still No Hit With Public  —  WASHINGTON — On the day President Obama took the final step in turning the Affordable Care Act into law, his senior adviser, David Axelrod, predicted the public would eventually embrace his ambitious effort at health care reform.

For Opponents of Health Care Law, No Easy Road to Repeal  —  WASHINGTON — Minutes after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold most of the health care law, Congressional Republicans vowed to use every ounce of their legislative muscle to repeal it on their own.  —  The court's ruling that Congress …

Obama Contributor, Who Helped Enact Assault-Weapons Ban, Ran ‘Fast and Furious’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Dennis K. Burke, who as a lawyer for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1990s was a key player behind the enactment of the 1994 assault-weapons ban, and who then went …

Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to ‘run away’ and ‘hide’ from gunmen  —  A pocket card handed out to Homeland Security employees in April detailing how they should handle an “active shooter” situation.  —  Border Patrol agents in Arizona are blasting their bosses for telling them …

TPMMuckraker  —  Texas GOP's 2012 Platform Opposes Teaching Of ‘Critical Thinking Skills’  —  The Republican Party of Texas' recently adopted 2012 platform contains a plank that opposes the teaching of “critical thinking skills” in schools.  The party says it was a mistake …

Egypt's Morsi defies military in fiery speech  —  President-elect takes symbolic oath of office and says “no institution is above the people” on eve of his inauguration.  —  Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president-elect, took a symbolic oath of office during a rousing speech in Cairo …