Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal ponders California circling the drain while the presidential candidates mouth platitudes and attack each other, careful to avoid discussion of real issues.

Politico's Tuesday morning headline read, "GOP pros fret over Ryan," depicting anonymous GOP operatives expressing concern over Paul Ryan.

However, Assange has taked refuge in the Ecuador embassy in London and they aren't sure how to get him out of the country without being arresting by the British.

Will Ecuador have to smuggle Assange out of Britain, asks Foreign Policy.

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Imagine a business model where the government lends people money to pay you for a service that you may or may not deliver effectively, and no matter what goes wrong, someone else has to pay the government back and you get to keep almost $32 billion a year.

The Congress approval rating by American voters fell to an all-time low today. According to Gallup, just 10% of Americans think Congress is doing a good job.

Virgin America airline has teamed up with Rock the Vote and PromoJam Social Marketing to roll out a new "get out the vote" push on all Virgin America flights through November. Using a QR code to scan with smart phones, passengers will be directed to a mobile app that allows them to register to vote with Rock the Vote.

In a lot of ways, school choice programs, though perceived as a draconian libertarian policy, are similar to the single-payer policy that many progressives want for health care. School choice doesn't mean leaving disadvantaged parents without a way to afford their children's education.

It means letting the government act as a single payer for education costs, but letting parents choose how to use that money to educate their child in a way that works best for them and their child instead of letting just a few government planners make those choices for everyone.