INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Obama’s Overseas Travel Turning Into Campaign Stops.

Why should it be different from his domestic travel?

NANCY PELOSI: America’s Least-Liked Congressional Leader. Boehner is most-liked, though even he only gets 37% approval.

OH, GOOD GRIEF: Swedish minister denies claims of racism over black woman cake stunt. You really have to click through and see the picture to appreciate the story.

MARK HALPERIN GIVES THE GAME AWAY. It’s all about distracting people from Obama’s lousy record.

UPDATE: David Axelrod gave things away, too.

If the election in November is a referendum on “an economy that continues down the road we are on,” with 66 percent of the American people telling pollsters they think the country is on the wrong track, Obama will lose. This isn’t a line of argument Obama and his people want to pursue. So why did Axelrod say it?

I’d guess it was a moment of weakness. As Shakespeare’s Henry IV said, “The wish is father to the thought.”

Axelrod’s mind-boggling description of the current reality — in which, he said, “A fewer and fewer number of people do very well, and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace” — suggests he desperately wishes he and Obama were back in 2008.

That was the year of “Yes, we can,” and “We are the change we have been looking for,” not a year in which he’ll have to ask for a second term after nearly four years of his own national stewardship.

Axelrod knows how to run Obama as the candidate of change. His words suggest he doesn’t know how to run Obama as the candidate of the status quo.

Well, it’s not exactly morning in America these days.

OF COURSE HE DID: Roll Call: Harry Reid Pushed to Allow Government Conferences in Vegas. “In 2009, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) urged the White House and individual federal agencies to lift government travel bans on ‘cities known as resort towns’ like Las Vegas — the site of a controversial $823,000 General Services Administration conference in 2010.”

But, then, he had to overcome the consequences of Obama’s job-killing anti-Vegas rant.

#DOJFAIL: Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept. Somebody should ask Eric Holder what he plans to do about this.

WHERE THE JOBS ARE: Texas to Play Significant Role in Future U.S. Crude Oil Growth. “The Eagle Ford shale boom has brought tremendous opportunities to South Texas in terms of jobs. For example, an 18-year old high school graduate who can pass a drug test can earn $55,000 a year working in the Eagle Ford, and if they have a commercial driver’s license, they can earn $80,000 a year for a starting salary, said state Sen. Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio).”

BAILOUT BARONS: Fed secrecy gives cashed-out insiders an advantage.

COVERED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES: Shakedown Lawsuits Under The ADA.

THE HILL: ‘Joe the Plumber’ gaining ground in money race against Rep. Kaptur. In retrospect, his question, Obama’s answer — and in particular the vicious and law-breaking politico-media smear campaign launched against him in response — perfectly prefigured the Obama Presidency.

OH, YOU KNOW THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN IS REALLY CUT UP ABOUT THIS: Roseanne Barr Rips Ann Romney.

ANNALS OF THE .01 PERCENT: Axelrod buys $1.7 million Michigan Ave condo.

UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

HOPE AND CHANGE: Record Number Of Americans Renounce Citizenship.

FASTER, PLEASE: New treatment for prostate cancer gives ‘perfect results’ for nine in ten men: research. If this ultrasound-based approach works out, it may not only improve cure rates but also drastically cut costs. I think we’ll see a fair amount of new medical technology along those lines over the next decade or two.

WAR AGAINST WOMEN: NC Dems demand state chairman’s resignation, compare sexual harassment scandal to Watergate.

TOM MAGUIRE: Trayvon Martin: Reuters Finds Bandages On Zimmerman, But Why Now? “It’s interesting to see Reuters letting a bit of the air out of a story the media helped inflate.”

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Gold Nanoparticles Help Red Blood Cells Deliver Drugs.

ADMISSION: Washington Post: We Tried To Bury That Story About ObamaCare Blowing Up The Deficit. “Washington Post columnist Patrick Pexton made a rather startling admission in the paper’s Sunday edition: The Post never meant for their recent story about how President Obama’s health care law expands the budget deficit to become a viral Internet sensation. In fact, they deliberately tried to bury the story.”

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EXTREMISM IN DEFENSE OF EXTREMISM IS A VICE: Lefty Activists Crash Romney’s Tea Party. “Progressive activists stormed the Franklin Institute this evening. They clashed with tea-party organizer Don Adams, who blocked them from entering. It was a wild, tense scene, just minutes before Mitt Romney appeared here. Adams, who is the man at the door in this video of the incident, tells NRO that the ‘nasty’ exchange is an example of what Romney will face this fall.”

They’re acting increasingly desperate, aren’t they?

IF YOU’RE AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST LOOKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY, here’s one. I don’t know much about the practice — it’s the husband of an old friend from my DC days — but it’s in lovely Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

SUBSTITUTING PROFANITY FOR ARGUMENT: Bob Beckel Screams ‘F**k’ Live On Hannity, Refuses To Believe He Was On Air. But note Neal Boortz standing up for free speech.

MICKEY KAUS ON David Carr’s Defective Sneering. “You, the reader, can decide whether Carr was trying to please his editors, fellow reporters and/or readers with the gratuitous “most.” Remember: He can’t speak for his subconscious! … Most feel he embarrassed himself.” Then there’s Matthew Yglesias.

Poor Matt. Posture for your Journolist buddies for a moment, be remembered for it for a lifetime.

MARK LEVIN: The Speech Mitt Romney Should Give.

RAND SIMBERG: The Space Property Rights Discussion Continues.