Tim Pawlenty's campaign has just announced that it's raised $4.2 million in the second quarter.

Despite the Wisconsin political circus of late, state Republicans have expanded the oldest voucher program in the nation within a much-needed deficit-cutting budget. Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed the bill Sunday. It included a provision axing the cap on Milwaukee's school vouchers program (previously set at 22,500) and expanding it to the entire district and the neighboring Racine school district.

Mary Katharine Ham's explores "The Real ATM."

Following on Matt Continetti’s cover story this week, “Queen of the Tea Party,” a host of writers seem to have awakened to the charms, and the potential, of Michele Bachmann.

"Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as in Jeopardy"

Sure, why not? "Rep. McCotter to launch presidential bid on July 2"

Mike Murphy: "How Michele Bachmann’s Surge Reshuffles the GOP Presidential Race"

In Wednesday’s press conference, Barack Obama said:

"Senate confirms Petraeus as next CIA director with 94-0 vote"

"Under the new Wisconsin budget repair, one school district goes from a $400,000 deficit to a $1.5 million surplus."

"Sen. Thune says the best way to meet President Obama is to 'set up a tee time'"

The president talked an awful lot yesterday at his press conference about ending tax breaks for corporate jets, but closing that tax break would only amount to $3 billion over 10 years. That's 0.7% of all tax increases he desires over the next 10 years as part of a deal to raise the debt limit.

Ohio GOP Senate candidate Kevin Coughlin attacks his Republican primary opponent Josh Mandel, the state treasurer:

On Monday, in the case of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the Supreme Court struck down a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to children. In a 7-2 holding authored by Justice Antonin Scalia (with Justices Alito and Roberts concurring and Justices Thomas and Breyer dissenting), the Court ruled that video games enjoy essentially the same constitutional protection as books, with violent video games being, in Scalia’s estimation, much like modern day Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

Andrew Ferguson reads all of Newt Gingrich's 21 books, so you don't have to: 

So Mark Halperin went on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning and said the President was acting like a [coarse euphemism for male genitalia] and an uproar has ensued. I don't applaud Halperin's decision to express himself so vulgarly and he shouldn't have described the president this way.