As the president rightly asserted, and as reasonable people in either party must acknowledge, playing politics with the debt ceiling must be put permanently out of bounds.

CNN: GOP holding U.S. economy hostage on debt

While many would now query cricket's association with the Stanford organisation, when it comes to the running of major sporting events, it has been leaps and bounds ahead of anything that has previously been put on in the Caribbean.

BBC: Colin Croft column

Monday afternoon, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds called the ad "vile" and said it was put out "apparently at the behest" of the Obama campaign.

NPR: Liberal 527 Groups Target McCain With Ads

Pending lawsuits in the court system would put more than half of the Marine Corps' critical Camp Pendleton in California out-of-bounds because the Marines might disturb the one-inch-long Pacific pocket mouse and other species.

FORBES: Fact and Comment