California is fast becoming a dry land, but President Obama found enough green turf to play several rounds of golf during a fundraising visit to the vote-rich state. While environmentalists burned, Charleston residents mourned and the first lady enjoyed a tax-paid excursion in Europe with the two Obama daughters and her mother, Obama golfed and dined with movie moguls.

Is Republican strategist Karl Rove calling for abolishing the constitutional right for citizens to bear arms? No, but he did say that "the only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to basically remove guns from society, and until somebody gets 'oomph' to repeal the Second Amendment, that's not going to happen."

TV hosts hurled insinuations at Republican presidential candidates on the Sunday talk shows. NBC's Chuck Todd pointedly asked former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, "Are you comfortable displaying the Confederate battle flag in public?" (He said he didn't display the flag anywhere.) When former Sen. Rick Santorum told Martha Raddatz of ABC the flag issue should be left up to the state of South Carolina, she snapped, "Do you not have a position on this at all?"