Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens

• On Sunday renewed fighting broke out between Shiite militias and U.S. and Iraqi forces near the Green Zone in Baghdad. Militias in Sadr City were firing rockets and mortars into the heavily fortified zone. [ New York Times ]

• Former NRA president and movie actor Charlton Heston is dead at 84. [ Washington Post ]

• Some military experts argue that David Petraeus's counterinsurgency strategy is preventing the U.S. from being able to wage other, more traditional wars, like the one we could be having with North Korea right now if Petraeus weren't so selfish. [ Wall Street Journal ]

• Congress, in trying to fix every aspect of the mortgage debacle from every angle for every involved party, may end up breaking something else. [ Los Angeles Times ]

• TheLA Timesretracts its awesome story implicating Sean Combs in an attack on Tupac Shakur, because it was based on transparent lies by a known fraud. [ Los Angeles Times ]

• The Obama campaign can't rely on a strong college turnout in Pennsylvania because most of the kids are registered in their home states. [ Politico ]