At the beginning of President Obama’s trip to Colombia, 12 Secret Service agents have been relieved of duty and sent home over alleged ‘misconduct’ tied to prostitution.

In itself, there are certainly bigger deals than cavorting with prostitutes. But for members of the President’s Secret Service team to be doing so on a foreign trip is actually a pretty big deal, especially in a country like Colombia racked by endemic violence and drug cartels. A classic invitation to blackmail and other forms of compromise.

I’ve always taken it as a given that the ‘real’ Mitt Romney isn’t so much a political moderate as not particularly engaged on issues besides management and right-leaning economics. In other words, he’s a center-right technocrat. So the moves to the center we’re about to see are comparatively easy for him since these just aren’t issues which are core to who he is one way or another. Still it will be fascinating to watch the repositioning. And E.J. Dionne has found a great example.

Tucked away in a Fred Barnes piece in the Wall Street Journal, he finds this quotes: “According to a Romney adviser, his private view of immigration isn’t as anti-immigrant as he often sounded.”

It looks like Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is trying to pick his opponent in the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall.

It’s Friday the 13th and the “War on Women” is still everyone’s favorite topic of conversation.

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Romney wades back into the contraception fight at the NRA convention … with some key omissions.

George Zimmerman’s lawyer said Friday that he may ask the judge in the case to step aside because one of her husband’s law partners has been hired as a legal analyst by CNN as part of its coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting.

Before James Cameron saccharined it all up with a love story, the story of the sinking of the Titanic was an object lesson in the hubris born from man’s love affair with technology. Looking through our slideshow on the 100th anniversary of the sinking, I couldn’t help but wonder if that lesson has stuck in any real way.

Lawyers in the case at Gitmo against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri are haggling over how much money the accused USS Cole bombing plotter should get for his criminal defense. Not unusual. But what’s interesting is comments from some of the family members of the victims. Ryan Reilly reports from Gitmo.

We’ve posted the charging document in the criminal case against George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin. More here.

For some Friday uplift, check out Mayor Cory Booker’s press conference this morning about rescuing a woman from a house fire last night.

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