Reuters:

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs is back at work following a near 6-month medical leave, although he will work at least initially from home for a few days a week, the company said on Monday.

The official word of his return followed months of speculation about the health of Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor and his future with the company he co-founded more than 30 years ago.

AP:

MIAMI — Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte’ Stallworth said on a 911 call that the man he struck with his car while driving drunk “came out of nowhere” before the crash.

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Column at RCP.

Rasmussen:

Republican congressional candidates rebounded this week and pulled ahead again of Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. The last time the GOP held a lead was in early May. Read the rest of this entry »

Rasmussen:

Even though American troops have now pulled out of all cities in Iraq and still are on schedule to be completely withdrawn by the end of 2011, 64% of U.S. voters do not believe the war in Iraq is over.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 16% think the war begun in March 2003 is now at an end. One-in-five voters (20%) are not sure

Reuters:

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Web users flooded to a trendy art zone cafe on Wednesday to celebrate a last-minute halt to a rollout of government-sponsored filtering software, and make a stand for freedom of expression in the Communist-run state. Read the rest of this entry »

Reuters:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Celebrities and hip adults aren’t the only people flocking to Twitter, the social-networking site. Even centenarians have learned to tweet. Read the rest of this entry »

Source:

The July 1, 1979 rollout of the portable cassette player helped transform the Japanese company into a global electronics powerhouse. Sony sold 30,000 Walkmans in the first two months after its launch, and 50 million within a decade. Read the rest of this entry »

Greenville News.

Gov. Mark Sanford should resign immediately and allow South Carolina to begin picking up the pieces. The two-term governor has destroyed any shred of credibility with his lies unnecessarily added on top of other lies. His ability to govern this state has been compromised so severely that he cannot fulfill the duties required of this state’s governor until a successor takes the oath of office in January 2011.

Source:

DETROIT - A person with the knowledge of the negotiations says the Detroit Pistons have agreed in principle to contracts with former UConn players and current NBA free agents Ben Gordonand Charlie Villanueva. Read the rest of this entry »

AP:

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - When the Texas Rangers sent Josh Hamilton to Triple-A Oklahoma City for rehabilitation, they didn’t envision their All-Star slugger getting two games’ worth of at-bats in one night. Read the rest of this entry »

FT:

A garden party in east Beijing billed as a protest against a government plan to fit all computers with Green Dam, a controversial web filtering software, turned into a celebration on Wednesday after the programme was postponed.

“The government has learned a valuable lesson that you cannot treat your citizens like that,” said Ai Weiwei, an outspoken artist who had invited internet users to spend the day in a garden restaurant and off the web to mark the day, originally the government’s deadline for the program’s introduction.

Dick Morris at RCP.

Only the Senate and House Republicans can save Obama now by compromising and lending his extremist legislation the veneer of bipartisanship in order to remove it as a political issue. Read the rest of this entry »

Reuters:

(Reuters) - Dell Inc, the worlds No.2 PC maker, is developing a pocket-sized device for tapping into the Internet, the Wall Street Journal said citing people familiar with the company’s plans. Read the rest of this entry »

AP:

Wimbledon, England — Pretty much everyone is impressed by the way Venus and Serena Williams dominate at Wimbledon.

Even Roger Federer, who knows a thing or two himself about success at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament.

“It seems when they’re playing well,” Federer observed, “that there’s not much of a chance for the other girls.”

Examiner:

While promoting his new cap-and-trade energy tax bill, which passed the U.S. House last week, President Obama revealed in a White House address on Monday his model for the nation’s economy - California. Read the rest of this entry »

AP:

The star-studded team that featured Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Charles Barkley and won the gold medal in Barcelona headlines this year’s inductees for the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Read the rest of this entry »

From Ned Ryun:

Fellow Members of the Majority —   It has become apparent that we are in a fight for values and ideals.

Politicians in many of our states, and in Washington, are trying to enact a harmful agenda with devastating consequences for American jobs and pocketbooks.   Read the rest of this entry »

Column at RCP.

AP:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mississippi’s still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. Read the rest of this entry »