A federal judge wants to know what Rupert Murdoch’s reaction was to a cartoon his paper published depicting Obama as a dead chimpanzee.

Interestingly, editor Col Allan tried to invoke something called “editorial privilege” to shield discussions about chimp cartoons. But the judge didn’t buy it.

Yesterday at Mojo, David Corn did a very interesting and detailed follow up on the Stericycle story that briefly popped up during the primaries. Briefly, this is the story of a medical disposal company that Bain/Romney invested in — but one which was also involved in disposing of fetuses, something that drew the ire of anti-abortion groups. So here’s a bit more information. Read More

In this week’s installment of Crosstabs, our Polling Editor Kyle Leighton takes a look at where things sit after the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ‘Obamacare.’

Has Krohn dumped Jesus as well as Bill Bennett?

Ok, this is a bit tongue in cheek. But I’m curious. We now all know the story of young Jonathan Krohn (YJK), the one time micro-pundit who dazzled conservatives in 2009 and has now recanted into some sort of semi-reticent, bemused liberalism. Read More

First personal computers. Now personal drones. You’ll want to see this.

TPM’s Benjy Sarlin interviews Jonathan Krohn about the backlash he’s getting as a former 13-year-old conservative wunderkind turned 17-year-old Obama supporter. He’s taking it all in stride — and with a great sense of humor.

One of our reporters has been pushing me for a few days on the idea that John Roberts wrote both the majority opinion — which goes under his name — and the minority opinion — or at least most of it — signed jointly by the four dissenting justices. I stress though that the TPM reporter who thinks this bases his theory purely on a close reading of both opinions and his own conjecture. No reporting — just the theory of a fevered, perhaps ingenious, mind. But Paul Campos, writing at Salon, claims to have a knowledgeable source at the Court who says this is precisely what happened. As he writes, “it appears Chief Justice Roberts ended up in large part authoring both the majority opinion and the dissent in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.”

I really don’t know what to think of this, true or not. But I definitely wanted to pass it on.

CERN accidentally publishes video announcing new particle discovery.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg high-fives a giant hot dog. No reports of giant sodas in the vicinity.

Prosecutor declines to pursue charges against former Commerce Secretary John Bryson in hit and run case.