President Obama is using some timeworn oratorical tricks in striving to win back public favor. In a campaign-type rally in Kansas City, he challenged Republicans to "stop hatin' all the time." That's a loaded question akin to asking an opponent, "When did you stop beating your wife?" By pretending there is cause for concern about impeachment, Obama and his aides are putting up a "straw man" -- a false issue designed to distract and draw attack.


  A House committee investigating IRS targeting of conservative groups has turned up some self-incriminating evidence involving ex-IRS official Lois Lerner. Emails released by the House Ways and Means Committee quote Lerner as calling some conservatives "a--holes" and "crazies" in an exchange with an acquaintance.


Rumormongers have been signaled to stop spreading it around that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is planning to resign soon. Ginsburg, 81, told Yahoo's Katie Couric, "I am still here and likely to remain for a while."