Questions about Bain Capital and even about income inequality in general are just about envy and jealousy, says Mitt Romney.

As you may have noticed, out-going Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) is catching some flak today for a couple hundred pardons he gave on his last day in office. Many of the pardoned convicts were found guilty of brutal crimes, including murder. And the picture is complicated by the fact that a number of the recipients were part of a program where certain good-behaving and long-serving convicts served as servants in the governor’s mansion and thus got to know Barbour or his staff.

But let me put a stake in the ground on this one and say that I think pardons get a bad rap and that there should be more pardons. Read More

Romney touts the endorsement of the creator/author of Arizona’s far-right anti-immigration law.

Pat Buchanan says his problems with MSNBC are due to “militant gay rights groups” and that black guy Van Jones.

Part of the administration’s legal strategy for defending the health care reform act in front of the Supreme Court is to convince Antonin Scalia to stick with his own precedent in Commerce Clause cases. Sahil Kapur explains.

Lawyer defending South Carolina’s voter ID law was one of the Bush-era DOJ guys who thought the department was discriminating against … white people.

Pema Levy on how Mitt Romney’s opposition to the Dream Act might cost Republicans a shot at wooing Hispanic voters in the general election yet again.

Jon Stewart roasts CNN’s 5 a.m. “news” show that specializes in cold calling people in the early morning hours. Watch.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the FAA for more information about who has received the 285 certifications for using aerial drones in the United States.

Bernard Avishai looks ahead to the Obama v. Romney race and the quest to make Obama a one-term president.