Welcome to the "you're a racist if you disagree with Barack Obama" club, Jon Lovitz! Yesterday the Hollywood comedian appeared on Fox News with Megyn Kelly to not only express his disagreements with President Obama's vilify the rich rhetoric, but to also explain how he has been treated after telling a live audience that the idea that the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes is a bunch of bull.

Only in America can a guy start making duck calls in his garage, turn it into a million dollar industry and land his own tv show.

In an exclusive interview with Townhall, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rebuked a conservative group that is reportedly planning to assail President Obama over his 20-year relationship with controversial Chicago pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
 

"I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described.  I would like to see this campaign focus on the economy, on getting people back to work, on seeing rising incomes and growing prosperity -- particularly for those in the middle class of America.  And I think what we've seen so far from the Obama campaign is a campaign of character assassination.  I hope that isn't the course of this campaign. So in regards to that PAC, I repudiate what they're thinking about ... It's interesting that we're talking about some Republican PAC that wants to go after the president [on Wright]; I hope people also are looking at what he's doing, and saying 'why is he running an attack campaign?  Why isn't he talking about his record?'"

Romney added that his campaign will release its first general election television ad in the coming days, which he described as "positive" in nature.  With his comments on the re-emergence of Rev. Wright as a factor in a presidential campaign, the former Massachusetts Governor has aligned his stance with that of Sen. John McCain, who refused to touch the issue in 2008.  The full interview with Gov. Romney will first air on today's edition of the nationally-syndicated Hugh Hewitt radio program.

Yesterday on MSNBC, Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore in a discussion with host Martin Bashir, claimed the GOP is anti-woman and anti-diversity in reference to the Violence Against Women Act, which passed yesterday.

The Republican-led House on Wednesday approved in a mostly partisan 222 to 205 vote its own version of a Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, rejecting Democratic requests to also permit a vote on the Senate-passed bill that passed in that chamber with bipartisan support. The Senate bill provides new protections for gay, immigrant, and Native American victims of domestic abuse while the House version does not.

And now, Rep. Trey Gowdy.

You know what's better than a Violence Against Women Act? The Second Amendment.

Watergate 2.0? Maybe not quite, but a number of Republican Representatives on the Hill and Capitol police are trying to figure out who is responsible for a series of burglaries that took place after hours in Congressional offices. The burglaries took place at night, doors were locked and because the Capitol is surrounded by police 24/7, evidence points to an inside job. The offices of Reps. Trey Gowdy, Jerry Lewis and Jon Runyan were affected.

More from the National Journal:

Puzzling break-ins over the last month at the offices of at least three House members and several committees have U.S. Capitol Police gumshoes working to find a pattern and the culprits, with missing items ranging from cash and expensive computer equipment to autographed baseballs and alcohol.

“The evidence points to someone with access to my office, and other offices in the Capitol complex, as the perpetrator,” freshman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., surmised in a letter to the House’s Office of the Chief Administrative Officer.

Other offices hit—many of which handle information dealing with issues of national security, though nothing of a sensitive nature was reportedly taken—include those of Reps. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., and Jon Runyan, R-N.J.; the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security; and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Those looking for some common link might note that Lewis serves on Appropriations; Gowdy sits on Oversight; and Runyan is a member of the Armed Services Committee. Also, staffers on the House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census, and the National Archives, which Gowdy chairs, reported that $200 of their money went missing during business hours.

Last week, Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock beat out long time U.S. Senator Richard Lugar in Indiana. This week, Tea Party Candidate Deb Fisher won a Nebraska primary and will compete for a U.S. Senate seat in November. Both candidates were endorsed by former Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin. Many people are calling it "Palin power," and now, Rush Limbaugh is accusing the GOP elite of waging a war on Palin, which I would say has been going on since the day she was launched onto the national stage.