The co-founder of the North Iowa Tea Party concedes that the photos of Hitler, Obama, and Lenin on a billboard his group put up may be distracting from the sign’s intended message.

The billboard’s message: “RADICAL LEADERS PREY ON THE FEARFUL & NAIVE.”

State Rep. Robert Bentley wins the Republican nomination for governor in Alabama.

Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber — whose TV ad of him personally urging the founding fathers to war was perhaps the most laughable campaign ad of 2010 — lost in the GOP primary runoff tonight in Alabama.

Missouri GOP congressional candidate Ed Martin not backing down: Obama’s big government ways put freedom of religion in jeopardy.

GOP says no to unemployment benefits, but yes to tax cuts for the rich.

The bombing in Kampala, Uganda, Sunday during the World Cup final — which killed one American, injured 5 others and killed 75 other people — marks the first attack by al Shabaab outside of Somalia, a senior Administration official said today.

“There are indications that al Shababb was indeed responsible for it,” a senior administration official told reporters in a background briefing via conference call that I was just on. The group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, and the Administration finds that claim credible.

The administration official would not rule out a change in U.S. policy to provide military assistance to the transitional government in Somalia, which is battling an al Shabaab insurgency. “We’re taking stock of recent events to determine if this is now a trend that al Shabaab will be on and will take all appropriate measures,” the official said.

Not parsing words, the official described al Shabaab as a “group of murderous thugs.” Read More

The U.S. government sends a fourth bill to BP, Transocean, Anadarko and Mitsui subsidiary MOEX, this time for $99.7 million for Gulf blowout costs. BP has paid the three previous government bills, totaling $122.3 million.

Attorney General Eric Holder and Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, are in New Orleans at this hour announcing new indictments of New Orleans police officers in the Danziger Bridge shooting and alleged coverup.

Here’s our interview with Perez from a few months ago.

You can read the DOJ press release on the new indictments here.

Rachel Slajda has the rundown on the new charges.

We’ve added a couple of dozen more photos to the George Steinbrenner slideshow, and I’m struck anew by what a larger-than-life figure he became, transcending sport to earn a spot in that strange pantheon: late 20th century pop culture celebrity:

Second Circuit strikes down FCC’s indecency rules. Bono now free to say f*** on the air.