Last weekend, a group of libertarians and anarchists gathered in the woods of northern New Hampshire for the annual Porcupine Freedom Festival, aka PorcFest.

I went up for breakfast.

Lucky for me, George Mandrik has brought along 150 lbs. of bacon, which he's selling out of a tent to finance his trip to the festival. He does this thing where he weaves 10 pieces of bacon into what he calls "a little blanket," and cooks the whole thing up.

It's pretty easy to see the winning formula for Fox News and MSNBC. They spend their evening hours stoking outrage from the political right and left, respectively.

But it's not as clear what the missing secret sauce should be for CNN. The cable news pioneer now continually lags in ratings during prime time, the most heavily watched hours.

This Fourth of July weekend, flames and smoke will rise over backyards across the country. And that means grilling. In the best-case scenario, you get a tasty meal. In the worst case, you get an awesome story of how you turned hamburger into charcoal briquettes — or maybe how you got grill marks on your hand.

Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible, wants to help you stay on the right side of that line.

The U.S. Supreme Court term that ended Monday significantly altered the nation's legal topography, making it much more difficult for people to sue big business. At the same time, the court continued its First Amendment march, making clear that at least five justices, and often more, prize the First Amendment guarantee of free speech over other constitutional values.

Dr. Emil Oweis is ready for anything Washington Hospital Center throws at him. One year out of medical school, the tall 26-year-old internal-medicine resident often works up to 30 hours at a time. He sees it as a necessary part of his training.

"You're definitely going to be tired," Oweis acknowledges, but with coffee and occasional showers he remains "alive and functional."

Bob and Alice Gerold adopted their daughter, Aimee, from China when she was a baby. Now 14, Aimee has many questions about how her parents met, and why they decided to adopt. She spoke with her father recently to get the answers.

"How did you meet Mom?" Aimee asks.

"I can tell you the date: Sept. 14, 1984," Bob says.

Interrupting him, Aimee asks, "Back when dinosaurs roamed the land?"

"Yeah, I was protecting her from the dinosaurs," Bob says.

More specifically, Aimee asks, "So, when did she like, decide to date you?"

Steeped in a debate that sounds a lot like the one happening on the national stage, Minnesota is hours away from a government shutdown. State lawmakers have been unable to reach a compromise on how to close the state's $5 billion budget gap.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

There are multiple reports at this hour that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering leaving his position once Congress comes to an agreement on increasing the debt the ceiling.

July 1 is traditionally the day many new state laws take effect. This year it's also the day the spigot officially turns off for $90 billion that Washington has been funneling to the states since 2009 to help them cope with the ballooning costs of the Medicaid program for the poor.

You don't have to look very far to find a governor complaining about the high cost of Medicaid or what it's doing to his or her state's budget.

A school district in Florida just released a 130 page report that details how one high school principal hypnotized between 70 and 75 students since 2006.

The school district began investigating Dr. George Kenney, the former principal at North Port High School in Sarasota, after he admitted that he had hypnotized Wesley McKinley, 16, a day before he killed himself in April.