Rudy Giuliani: My Bluntness Overshadowed My Message  —  Whether you agreed with me or not, I hope this can be the basis of a real conversation about national leadership.  —  There has been no shortage of news coverage—and criticism—regarding comments I made about President Obama at a political gathering last week in New York.

McConnell fails to deliver  —  After a terrible, bone-breaking accident and two eye surgeries, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the former Senate Majority Leader, is scheduled to be back on Capitol Hill this week.  —  Somehow the bruised Reid looks good compared to the new Republican Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.).

Documents show the expensive tastes of Jeb Bush's low-key wife  —  In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris.

Ken Silverstein resigns from Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, blasts ‘dishonest’ leadership  —  Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein has resigned from First Look Media's The Intercept after 14 months, saying he and others were hired “under what were essentially false pretenses [by being] …

President Obama's cyber pitch misses mark in Silicon Valley  —  The Obama administration is stumbling in its cybersecurity message to Silicon Valley, according to tech executives and a former White House official.  —  The White House recently made a big show of going to Stanford University for a major cybersecurity summit.

Obama Calls for Tighter Rules on Retirement Account Brokers  —  The Obama administration is proposing tougher restrictions on brokers who manage Americans' retirement accounts, reigniting a confrontation with the financial services industry over rules affecting trillions of dollars in 401k and other savings accounts.

The milk of human kindness came before intelligence: Skulls of early humans show they developed compassion up to 3million years ago - before they could even speak  — Study suggests kindness and compassion came before intelligence, and may have helped early humans develop reasoning skills and speech

Retired White Plains cop dead after killing two daughters, family dogs: officials  —  The high school in the small Westchester town shaken by a former police officer's murder of his two teenage daughters continued to come to grips with the unspeakable tragedy Sunday and was scheduled to open …

Swiss account secret of HSBC chief Stuart Gulliver revealed  —  Leaked files covering 2005-2007 show bank chief executive sheltered £5m of his own money at Panamanian company with Swiss HSBC account  —  Stuart Gulliver, the HSBC chief executive who has vowed to reform the crisis-hit bank …

Unpatriotic voters elect unpatriotic leaders: Column  —  Should the electorate have to pass a patriotism test?  —  Last week, Rudy Giuliani mused about whether President Obama loves America, musings that produced immediate media backlash as beyond the pale.  Some thought this was proof of Republican racism.