Good morning, everybody. With little fanfare, Will Forte’s leaving SNL. Now, your morning constitutional: Former President Jimmy Carter has left North Korea with Aijalon Mahli Gomes, whose release he had successfully gone to North Korea to secure. An increasing number of congressional Democrats are backing an extension of the Bush tax cuts, even those just for the wealthy, while some former Republican lawmakers are backing new taxes to reduce the budget deficit. Military trainers shocked how bad Afghans are at driving. Katrina recovery efforts seem to have unevenly favored the rich and affluent in Louisiana and Mississippi....

Good morning, folks. Miley and Liam broke up. Now, your morning constitutional: An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai who is being investigated for corruption is actually paid by the C.I.A. The Security and Exchanges Commission has approved new rules giving shareholders of companies more power to nominate board members. Food inflation is unexpectedly low, despite the rise in commodity prices. Will Wilkinson: How Reason Imperils Our Fake Libertarian Heritage. Choice passage: There is no form of libertarianism that simply falls out of our cultural endowment, as American moral culture has never been remotely libertarian. The average Tea Partier...

Good morning, folks. Unfrozen Caveman Center-Fielder will stay in Detroit. Now, your morning constitutional: John McCain fends off a challenge from the right, Ben “Obama’s the Worst President Ever” Quayle wins his crowded primary, and Lisa Murkowski might need to find a new job. Also, nobody’s quite sure what happened in Vermont. Jimmy Carter is in North Korea on a mission to secure the release of an American prisoner and, quite possibly, break an impasse in U.S.-North Korean relations. The Mexican Navy has discovered 72 dead bodies on a ranch in Tamaulipas, the largest discovery of dead...