Top Stories

• Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates
• GOP-Controlled House Oversight Committee Requested IRS Investigation Last Year
• Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
• At I.R.S., Unprepared Office Seemed Unclear About the Rules

Below the Fold

• Pfeiffer to Fox News Host: 'Offensive' to Suggest Obama Let Americans Die in Benghazi
• FBI reportedly joins Bachmann campaign finance probe
• The Dangerous Duty of Diplomats
• Rand Paul Struggles to Tie Obama to IRS Scandal
Preview ►  • Obama to speak on legality of drone program
Analysis ►  • Ambassador Chris Stevens Deserved Better Than What Benghazi Became
• Tea Party Looks to Take Advantage of Scandal
• Obama Approval Rating Not Hurt By Scandals
Preview ►  • Obama to address Morehouse College commencement
• Joe Biden Considering Third And Final Presidential Run
• White House Pushes Back at Fox News’ Effort to Politicize IRS Scandal
• Shinseki Faces Mounting Criticism Over Backlog of Benefit Claims
Analysis ►  • Only 72 of 300 Groups Snagged By IRS Were Tea Party Groups
• Republican accidentally debunks GOP narrative at IRS hearing
Analysis ►  • Obama Scandals Are Desperate Measures By the GOP
• VA-Gov: Tea party hero Cuccinelli is GOP nominee

Endless Campaign

Analysis ►  The most vulnerable House members in 2014, in two charts
NJ-05: Have New Jersey Democrats Finally Found the Right Man to Defeat Bank Shill Extremist Scott Garrett?
Washington scandals intrude on Mass. Senate race
Analysis ►  MA-Sen: Why Isn't the GOP Backing Gabriel Gomez?
Analysis ►  As Moderates Balk, Progressives Poised to Step Up in Dems' Battleground Senate Campaigns
Bitter Loser Romney Hurls Criticism Over Scandals: 'I'm Not a Fan of the President'

Obama's Agenda

White House Aide Calls Criticism of Obama ‘Offensive’
Top Aide Stays Firm on When Obama Learned of IRS Controversy
Analysis ►  The President can indeed implement some climate policy on his own
Noam Chomsky: Obama Would Have Started Nuclear War to Kill Bin Laden
Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf
Watch this! ►  Obama focuses on middle-class concerns in weekly address
Obama talks jobs, says politics misplace focus
Analysis ►  Why Obama Aministration Was Infuriated By AP Story
Analysis ►  Michelle Obama and her husband are not going to stop telling kids to put away the video games and get some ambition
Obama Appears Unscathed By Unfolding Scandals
Analysis ►  Has Obama Ever Praised a Whistleblower?

Legislative Sausage

The New Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act – Robin Hood to the Rescue?
Mitch McConnell Backs Away from GOP Claims of a Benghazi Cover Up
Darrell Issa: 'You Don't Accuse the IRS Until You've Had a Nonpartisan, Deep Look'
Republicans Led By John Kline (R-MN) Voted Down Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Lower Student Interest Rates
Defcon 1 in the Senate? Harry Reid Focuses on July for the 'Nuclear Option'
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) warns that Obama's "lack" of foreign policy will create another HItler

Media Monkeyshines

Gregory Asks War Criminal Rumsfeld for Thoughts on Government Accountability
What do Jonathan Karl and James O'Keefe have in common?
NBC's David Gregory Mainstreams Theory That Obama Personally Fomented IRS Focus on Conservative Groups
CNN's Crowley Adopts False Right-Wing Claim That Obama Didn't Call Benghazi a Terrorist Attack
ABC's Jon Karl Tells CNN He Regrets Getting Benghazi Talking Points Reporting Wrong
Watch this! ►  Maddow: Fair Game to Disclose Names of Republicans Who Lied to ABC News
ROFL ►  Silly Rabbit "previews" Bob Woodward's next books
Obama Tweets Study of 97% Scientific Consensus on Manmade Warming, WashPost Confused on What That Means
ROFL ►  Colbert: 'How dare you cast aspersions on that man's asparagus!'

FARCE Noise

Fox News Sunday Anchor Chris Wallace Repeats Falsehood That "No Forces [Were] Deployed" to Benghazi

Wide World of War

Chinese boat owner says NKoreans detained his crew
Suspected U.S. Drone Strike in Yemen Kills 4 Al Qaeda Militants
North Korea fires three short-range missiles into eastern waters

Culture Of Corruption

Welcome to the Darrell Issa Hall of Shame
Watch this! ►  Rove Says His Super PAC Is Same as NAACP Because It's for 'Social Welfare'
Republicans Move to Repay Wall Street for All Those Nice Big Bribes
NY State Assemblyman Vito Lopez, accused of sex harassment, informed leaders on Saturday he will resign effective Monday morning
Analysis ►  How Buck McKeon's Mormonism Played Right into the Military Rape Epidemic Coverup
Virginia Governor and Attorney General Linked in Scandal
Ex-Police Chief Accused of Extorting Suspects

Teabaggery

Analysis ►  They ain't done yet: the Tea Party is still in charge

Budget Bungling

Watch this! ►  How “Fix the Debt” Dupes Working Americans

Conspiracy Nation

MN State Rep Calls Climate Change ‘Complete United Nations Fraud And Lie’

Courts

Federal Appeals Court: Drug Sentencing Disparity Is Intentional Racial ‘Subjucation’

Foot-in-mouth Watch

Virginia Lt. Gov. Nominee: Obama Sees World ‘From a Muslim Perspective’
Michele Bachmann: ‘Our Life And Death Very Well May Be in the Hands of the IRS’

Depression Watch

Analysis ►  Paul Krugman: Today's Austerity Policies Based on 'A Mythical 70s That Never Was'
"The idea that this 25 year old richie rich believes that the American people must be punished doesn't seem like a stretch to me"

Education

Harvard Students Demand Investigation into Jason Richwine's Thesis on Hispanic IQ
Randi Weingarten on Common Core: Do What It Takes Before High Stakes

Environment

Worse Than Watergate: Media Refuses to Cover Growing Scandal Bringing Nation to the Brink of Ruin
Analysis ►  Is Climate Change Increasing Tornado Intensity?

Politics Around the World

Zara Shahid Hussain, Senior Member of Pakistan Party Led By Imran Khan, Killed By Gunmen

Gay/Lesbian

Suspect in NY gay bias shooting is charged with murder
Florida Teen Expelled, Charged with Felony for Lesbian Relationship
New York Man Killed in Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime
Arizona Republican Jim Kolbe Is Getting Gay-Married Today

GOP

Analysis ►  Even conservatives who weren't alive in the 1960's will never get over that decade
Analysis ►  How GOP Obstruction Will Ruin the Republican Party

Health Disasters

GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law

Mortgage Meltdown

Republican obstruction cost this man his job and house
Watch this! ►  "It's time for bankers to go to jail!"
Fannie & Freddie Say It Would Be Too 'Awkward' to Meet with Foreclosed Homeowners

Law Enforcement

Officials: Hofstra Student in Home Invasion Was Killed by Police Gunshot; Total of Eight Rounds Fired

Natural Disasters

Monthlong investigation into cause of Texas fertilizer explosion leaves three possibilities

21st Century Bigotry

Analysis ►  Racism and the American Right

Taxes

Paul Ryan: IRS Connection to Obamacare Is 'Rotten to the Core'
Analysis ►  Having your tax-exempt application scrutinized is exactly the same as being dragged from your bed by jack-booted thugs
Analysis ►  Waitaminute. Isn't the IRS Supposed to Watch Out for Tax Cheats?
Targets in IRS Scandal Make Little Sense

Terrorism

New Step Taken in Ricin Letters Case

War Crimes

Human Rights Watch: Syrian Government Practiced Torture