By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
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Lakers trainer Gary Vitti thinks Bryant will need six to nine months for recovery from the most serious injury of his 17-year NBA career.
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers turned their attention Monday from bad basketball and trade talk to more somber matters.

For a movie about men who risked it all in an illegal drinking business, "Lawless" is frustratingly weak brew.
Magic fans will get a glimpse of the present and a possible future Friday when Orlando hosts the Los Angeles Lakers.
Howard scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter and then hung on to beat Morehouse 30-27 on Saturday.
"With the help of the Worldwide Leader, [Jalen] Rose took baggy shorts, black socks, bald heads and trash talk and created the illusion the [Michigan basketball] Fab Five were some sort of transcendent, revolutionary freedom fighters cut from the same cloth as Jackie Robinson, Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe and Muhammad Ali," writes Jason Whitlock at Fox Sports.

D.C. college students are raising a ruckus over changes in a city law requiring them to pipe down.

As the storm roared over Pauline Patton's apartment, she peered out the window and saw something unnerving: A funnel cloud. Suddenly, the power went out. Rainwater poured through the ceiling. And as everything went black, she heard what sounded like a bomb exploding overhead.

Officials worked Sunday to get people back into their homes a day after a tornado ripped through this southwestern Louisiana town, killing a mother shielding her child from the fierce winds and leaving 12 hurt.
It was harder to sell a home in September than at any point this year. Believe it or not, it actually was easier to sell a home in February - when we were buried in snow - than it was last month.
An estimated 634,200 area residents taking vacations over this Fourth of July holiday will set a record for summer travel, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.