Army struggling to rein in rampant theft of military fuel supplies in Afghanistan.

Dems to Gov. Walker: Meet us at the state line and we’ll talk.

Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) has scheduled a press conference today on his political future. Roll Call reports that Ensign will announce he’s not running for reelection next year.

One approach to politics is to try to prevent people who don’t support you from voting. It’s primarily been a Republican strategy for many years — mainly aimed at minorities and lower income voters. But college students appear to be next. New Hampshire Republicans are now pushing a law to prevent college students from voting.

Flailing Gov. Walker (R-WI) accuses out-of-state Dem senators of holding secret phone calls with special interest backers. Alas, theirs don’t seem to be with crank callers. So no tapes.

National media seems to have a hard time understanding that Gov. Walker (R) is losing this public standoff terribly. Curious when they’ll figure that one out. Does lead to some embarrassing headlines.

This Martin Bashir on MSNBC guy just asked if the 14 Dems need to “face reality” and come back.

Weird. Really weird.

Gov. Walker and the Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader are insisting that they were this close to getting the Dems to come back. But that’s prompted even sharper denials from the runaway Dems, insisting that Walker is using good faith discussions of points of compromise to create the impression that the Dems were ready to cave.

Whatever the reality of that though Walker’s stance seems now to have made any compromise even less likely — since he basically put it out there that the two senators most willing to talk were in fact ready to cut a separate deal with him.

Later today, former Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) is fixing to announce her candidacy to succeed retiring Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D). Let’s not forget she was knee-deep, actually shoulder deep, in the USA Attorney firing scandal. Probably more deeply and with more sworn and documentary evidence than any other elected official.

She’s been going at it uninterrupted since 1983, but dramatic changes in the current eruption cycle that took place over the weekend make it a good time to check back in on the Kilauea volcano:

Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tells TPM he will introduce legislation barring any government funds from being used to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian courts.