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Good morning, everybody. The U.S. and England tied 1-1, and Germany man-handled Australia. Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama will visit the Gulf region on Tuesday and address the nation on television about the Gulf oil spill  on Tuesday night. In his address, the president will outline a plan to force BP to create an escrow account to compensate businesses and individuals affected by the oil spill. Over 200 have been killed in southern Kyrgystan in three days of  violent clashing between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups. The U.S. has discovered possibly $1 trillion in mineral deposits...

Good morning, everybody. The U.S. and England tied 1-1, and Germany man-handled Australia. Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama will visit the Gulf region on Tuesday and address the nation on television about the Gulf oil spill  on Tuesday night. In his address, the president will outline a plan to force BP to create an escrow account to compensate businesses and individuals affected by the oil spill. Over 200 have been killed in southern Kyrgystan in three days of  violent clashing between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups. The U.S. has discovered possibly $1 trillion in mineral deposits...

Good morning, everybody. The Donald wants Lindsay? Now, your morning constitutional: Psst. In case you haven\’t been paying attention: World Cup starts today in South Africa. With at least 17 languages being spoken by the teams, the challenge of enforcing rules against swearing in the World Cup. An effort by Sen. Lisa Murkowski yesterday to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon levels failed in the Senate yesterday, further making energy/climate legislation look harder to pass. Researchers double their estimate of how much oil has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, now believing that over 40,000...

Good morning, everybody. Katy Perry apparently doesn\’t care much for Lady Gaga\’s new video. Now, your morning constitutional: Women swept all the high-profile primaries yesterday, with Blanche Lincoln winning in Arkansas, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiona winning in California, Sharron Angle winning in Nevada, and Nikki Haley heading to a run-off in South Carolina. An actual shocker in results yesterday, however: The Democratic nominee for Senate from South Carolina will be unemployed military veteran Alvin Greene, who beat the presumed winner despite spending nothing on his campaign except for the filing fee and doesn\’t even have a...

Good morning, folks. First ThunderCats, now Voltron\’s coming back. Now, your morning constitutional: A headline I, for one, never thought possible: Obama looking for \’whose ass to kick.\’ Although, the AP\’s is pretty great as well: Obama talks tough on spill; keisters in peril. Iran is defiant in the face of potential sanctions as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns that Iran will not agree to talks on its nuclear program if the UN passes sanctions this week. “Fuck my victims. I carried them for twenty years, and now I’m doing 150 years.” Bernie Madoff: class act. A 25-year-old...

Good morning, everybody. Elton John sang at Rush Limbaugh\’s fourth wedding. Now, your morning constitutional: BP announced Monday that its response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has cost $1.25B so far. Seven killed over the weekend in Ohio as severe storms and tornadoes swept the Midwest. Slovenians voted to support a new border treaty with Croatia, a step towards resolving a decades-long dispute that will make it easier for the Balkan states to enter the European Union. The cost of doing business in China is going up and will likely lead to higher...

Good morning, folks. Hold on to your childhood, because Warner Brothers is making an anime restyling of Thundercats. Now, your morning constitutional: \”I simply misremembered it wrong,\” explained Rep. Mark Kirk, who is running for the Illinois Senate seat once held by President Obama, of how an award for the unit he headed became an award just for him. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued a new restrictions on sulfur dioxide emissions, the first such revision of sulfur dioxide rules in 40 years. Sulfur dioxide is a major component of the exhaust from coal-burning power plants,...

Good morning, everybody. Charlie Sheen is going to jail. Now, your morning constitutional: Rep. Arthur Davis lost the chance to be Alabama\’s first black Democratic nominee for governor yesterday. Dale Peterson (previously) also lost his bid for Agriculture Commissioner. No matter what happens in the fall, New Mexico will have its first female governor. BP\’s shares have plunged 36 percent in value since the April explosion that caused a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which may make BP cheap enough to attract acquisition interest. Attorney General Eric Holder is opening an investigation into the...

Good morning, everybody. Spencer behaved a little crazy and moved out. Now, your morning constitutional: Flooding and landslides resulting from Tropical Storm Agatha, the first named storm of the season, has killed over 150 people in Central America. As Carol Browner, the White House energy and climate adviser, calls it the \”probably the biggest environmental disaster we\’ve ever faced in this country,\” BP and the administration warn that the oil spill in the Gulf could very well last until August. Robert Reich: The government should temporarily take over BP\’s U.S. operations to ensure it\’s workign in the...

Good morning, everybody. Could Lady Gaga have…lupus? Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama is visiting Louisiana Friday to assess the ecological disaster caused by the oil spill in the Gulf. U.S. officials and BP believe the spill has been patched, although they will not know for sure for a couple days. The spill is believed to be the worst in U.S. history. And here I thought Rand Paul loved the Constitution. The House of Representatives on Thursday voted for an amendment to a military funding bill to repeal the \”don\’t ask, don\’t tell\” policy banning gays from...