Really worth your time to catch up on who the players are in the Menendez-faux hookers-Cuban intel story so that you can fully appreciate the spectacle. You will not be disappointed.

This has got to be the most transparently contrived "feud" between two politicians of the same party that I've ever seen. It's Mark Begich (D-AK), running for re-election in a tight race that could tip the balance in the Senate, taking on Claire McCaskill (D-MO), whose own re-election in 2012 was fraught until the GOP nominated Todd Akin. After letting Begich knock her around for a few days on an issue of great importance to Alaskans, McCaskill really "retaliated" today in a statement to TPM: "There has consistently been one problem—Mark Begich. He single-handedly protects Alaska and the ANCs.”

How dastardly!

Dylan Scott explains the whole thing.

One of the leading voter fraud bamboolzer groups is getting in on the action in the disputed Senate GOP runoff in Mississippi, filing a federal lawsuit against the secretary of state and the state Republican Party.

Here's a helpful summary from Elena Kagan's dissent in today's anxiously awaited Supreme Court case on union agency fees:

The Hobby Lobby decision just came down. Authored by Justice Alito, the decision is a win for the plaintiff companies who were opposed to the contraceptive mandate, but is narrowly applied to closely held corporations. More soon.

The Hobby Lobby decision is imminent, but first the Supreme Court placed new limits on the ability of public employee unions to collect agency fees from non-union members. Backstory here. Justice Alito's decision here. At first glance this isn't as bad for unions as it could have been, but it's not good either.

We've been documenting nearly every day another in the relentless series of tragic incidents involving children and guns. So it's difficult to imagine addressing the issue of children and gun safety in a way that would make you laugh. But these guys figured it out. Pitch perfect.

You just won't believe what newly-revealed emails show about the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that cost Democrats the majority in the Virginia Senate.

The lawyer charged as a co-conspirator in that weird nursing home incident in the Mississippi Senate GOP primary has reportedly committed suicide.

In the contest for most blatant soccer trolling today we have a draw between Ann Coulter and this guy.