(FoxNews.com) Federal judges taking heat from Congress for planning a Maui conference later this summer have a long history of holding seminars in the sun.

The Maui meet-up, scheduled for August, would mark the fourth time in just the past decade the 9th Circuit — which spans western states — held its annual conference in Hawaii.

And they haven’t exactly been slumming it the other years. The 9th Circuit’s annual conference frequently has been held in upscale resorts and spas across the western states, even as other circuits are now either canceling the conference or scaling back.

(FrontPorchPolitics.com) A North Carolina teacher, on staff at North Rowan High School was captured on video shouting down one of her students because he pointed out that Barack Obama claimed to have bullied a girl in school in his book Dreams of My Father.

It appears from the video that the teacher did not know she was being recorded. The teacher is identified as Tanya Dixon-Neely. Imagine that a teacher would speak to your child in school in the manner this woman does.

When she points out that Romney was apparently a bully in school, which has been dismissed, a student asks her if Barack Obama claimed to bully someone in his book. The teacher completely loses control and shouts down the student who simply asked a question in an obvious attempt to be fair.

(CNSNews.com) Also: 40 Other Catholic Dioceses and Organizations–Sue Obama Administration

The Archdiocese of New York, headed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., headed by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the University of Notre Dame, and 40 other Catholic dioceses and organizations around the country announced on Monday that they are suing the Obama administration for violating their freedom of religion, which is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

(RedState.com) According to the New York Times, president Obama has “significantly lowered” the bar on how success in Afghanistan is defined.

In four years Obama has gone from ”we must never forget, this is not a war of choice, this is a war of necessity” and “this is a war that we have to win” to “Afghan good enough.” According to the Times, Obama’s new definition of victory in his war of necessity that must be won is Afghan stability and no unimpeded Al Qaeda safe havens:

“The goal is to have an Afghanistan again that has a degree of stability such that forces like Al Qaeda and associated groups cannot have safe haven unimpeded, which could threaten the region and threaten U.S. and other interests in the world.”

(FoxNews-AP) CHICAGO – Two more individuals have been arrested and accused of threatening the NATO conference in Chicago, in the latest escalation of tension between police and protesters on the sidelines of the Afghanistan war summit.

The summit has already been marked by terror threats, protests and most recently a disruption to the city of Chicago’s website, with hacker group Anonymous reportedly claiming responsibility. Despite the early challenges, President Obama met as scheduled Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at summit headquarters, before heading into meetings with top NATO officials on the way forward in Afghanistan.

(PatriotUpdate.com) It has now come out that Edward Klein’s new unauthorized biography of President Obama, “The Amateur,” alleges that Obama was a source of discontentment within the Kennedy family.

Recall that Caroline Kennedy was a very prominent supporter of Barack Obama in his 2008 campaign, going so far as to write in the New York Times, “I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspire them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president – not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.” Klein’s alleges those sentiments have changed dramatically since 2008.

[Breitbart.com] After President Obama’s humiliating showing against a West Virginia prison inmate earlier this month, a more serious humiliation could be in making after the May 22 Arkansas primary. According to a new poll of Arkansas Democrats taken by Talk Business-Hendrix College, Obama is only seven points ahead (45-38) of his challenger, a relatively unknown attorney by the name of John Wolfe. According to our friends at The Weekly Standard, Wolfe hasn’t done a single radio or television ad.

In West Virginia, a prisoner garnered nearly 42% of the vote against this sitting president. In North Carolina, “no preference” took 20% of the vote away from Obama. In national and many battleground state polls, even when he’s ahead, Obama is stuck in the mid-forties — the worst possible place for an incumbent to be [!]

(HotAir.com) Eight days ago, North Carolina voters added the previously existing statutory language defining marriage as between one man and one woman to their state constitution. The very next day, Barack Obama — who won North Carolina by 0.3% in 2008 — endorsed the legalization of same-sex marriage. A new Rasmussen poll shows the predictable consequences, which will likely end North Carolina’s status as a battleground state this cycle:

Mitt Romney has moved out to an eight-point lead over President Obama in North Carolina after the two men were virtually tied a month ago.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Tar Heel State shows the putative Republican nominee earning 51% of the vote to Obama’s 43%. Two percent (2%)

[TheBlaze.com] It was reported yesterday that the White House has “amended” the biography of nearly every U.S. president of the past century, adding a “Did you know?” section at the end where they tied former presidents’ accomplishments to those of president Obama.

At the bottom of Reagan’s biography, for instance, the White House tried to plug the “Buffett Rule.” Did you know, it asks, that “In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.”