Arizona governor concedes she “misspoke” when falsely claiming that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert due to illegal immigration.

In a Labor Day speech today in Milwaukee, President Obama will announce a proposal for a new $50 billion infrastructure program to try to juice the jobs market.

In a quote attributed to Peter J. McGuire, the 19th century labor leader sometimes credited with founding Labor Day, he describes it — in a very 19th century way — as a day to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.”

McCain-supporting, government-fearing Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu is at it again, this time claiming that Mexican drug cartels are in control of portions of U.S. territory down near the border. But other law enforcement officials we talked to dismissed this idea.

One of them is Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada, whose county is on the border (unlike Babeu’s). “They do not have control of any territory,” Estrada says. “I’ve seen just about everything. But what I’ve not seen is a beheading, and I’ve not seen the cartels controlling American territory.”

Estrada also told TPM that “there are a lot of things that are happening this election year” and that “a lot of the fear is going to die after November.”

The New Yorker has some new details on the C Street house, “The Fellowship,” the secretive Christian group that owns and rents it to congressmen, and the second of the two interventions they did with Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) to try to get him to end his affair.

Tony Blair offers Obama political advice on how to deal with professional left.

A new lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act alleges that the health care reform law violates, among many others, the Third Amendment — which bans the quartering of soldiers.

Muslim Americans begin to organize to push back against the current wave of Islamophobia.

He’s been hoarding his campaign cash for the stretch run against gazillionaire Meg Whitman, and now Jerry Brown is starting to spend it. But this first TV ad makes me wonder. Shouldn’t Brown avoid sepia tone? And do Californians really want a return to the 1970s? Take a look.

Following anti-American protests in Kabul over the planned burning of the Koran by that obscure Protestant church in Florida, Gen. David Petraeus says the desecration of the Koran “could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort.”