Benjamin Netanyahu To NBC: Those Who Believe Iran Should Have Nukes ‘Set A New Standard For Human Stupidity’  —  During his tour of several Sunday morning American talk shows, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told NBC's Meet the Press that Iran is guided by fanaticism with no rationality …

Neocons Slither Back  —  PAUL RYAN has not sautéed in foreign policy in his years on Capitol Hill.  The 42-year-old congressman is no Middle East savant; till now, his idea of a border dispute has more likely involved Wisconsin and Illinois.  —  Yet Ryan got up at the Values Voter Summit …

Inside the campaign: How Mitt Romney stumbled  —  Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's top strategist, knew his candidate's convention speech needed a memorable mix of loft and grace if he was going to bound out of Tampa with an authentic chance to win the presidency.

Poll: Elizabeth Warren opens 6-point edge on Scott Brown in Massachusetts Senate race  —  By ROBERT RIZZUTO and SHIRA SCHOENBERG  —  SPRINGFIELD — With 50 days left until Massachusetts voters decide who will represent them in the U.S. Senate for the next six years, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren …

Romney Camp Decides: The Economy Isn't Enough  —  “It's not enough just to criticize,” says Ryan.  Agrees an aide: “We have to bring more to the table.”  —  OLDSMAR, Fla. — Mitt Romney's campaign for president appears to have quietly abandoned its guiding assumption …

Report: Teachers union to continue strike  —  The Chicago public teachers union on Sunday decided to continue a weeklong strike as efforts to craft a settlement feel short.  —  Union leaders declined to vote on a proposed contract settlement, reported the Associated Press …

Deja Vu, 1988: Protesters Throw Bombs Over Religious Film  —  While listening to all the outraged right wing rantings about free speech and how Muslims were a separate, primitive class of religion for their outraged and violent response in Libya to the deliberately provocative work …

My Take: It's time for Islamophobic evangelicals to choose  —  Editor's Note: Brian D. McLaren is author of “Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?  Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World” (Jericho Books/Hachette Book Group).  —  I was raised as an evangelical Christian …

Tea party picking its battles  —  O'Donnell mulling '14 run as movement grows  —  MILLSBORO — Tea party faithful in the First State didn't have a lot to celebrate on primary election night, with a victory for one favored candidate, but loss after loss in other primary contests for state House and Senate seats.