Christian Science Monitor: "Gao Zhisheng, a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who disappeared more than a year ago, resurfaced this week with a string of phone calls to family and and reporters."

Christian Science Monitor: "President Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act Tuesday, whose student loan reform will mean big savings for the US government, but not much change for students until 2014."

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Eugene Robinson: "Demagogues scream at people that their government is illegitimate, that their country has been "taken away," that their elected officials are "traitors" and that their freedom is at risk. They have a right to free speech, which I will always defend. But they shouldn't be surprised if some listeners take them literally."

Richard Cohen:  "But Google, which admirably walked away from the biggest cellphone market in the world -- that and not its search engine was the real prize -- has shown that in the meantime the price of doing business in China is not its overvalued currency but its undervalued human rights."

Clarence Page writes that the Right’s anger could backfire and give moderate swing voters pause. 

Lee Ferran, ABC News: "Most were shocked by the charred scene of Joe Stack's kamikaze attack on a Texas IRS office, but for an alarmingly growing number of Americans Stack is a hero."

DNC Chairman Tim Kaine on Republican attempts to repeal healthcare and his efforts to end violent threats against members of Congress.   Watch CBS News Videos Online

Ban Ki-moon: "Renewal, not restoration, should be the goal for Haiti."

NY Times: "Suicide bombers set off huge explosions during Monday morning’s rush hour in two subway stations in central Moscow..."