Today's edition of quick hits:
* President Obama took the offensive against congressional Republicans on student loans this morning with these remarks.
* Navy: "Three U.S. Naval Academy football players are under investigation for alleged sexual assault last year against a female midshipman, sources have confirmed to NBC News."
* Syria: "Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday strongly criticized Russia's pledge to send advanced antiaircraft weapons to Syria, saying that Russia's actions threatened to disrupt efforts to negotiate a political settlement of the Syrian conflict and posed an unacceptable risk to Israel."
* Sorry, conservatives, but austerity is a terrible failure: "Unemployment in the euro zone continued its relentless march higher in April, according to official data published Friday, hitting yet another record amid a prolonged recession and the absence of a coordinated response by policy makers."
* Curtis Morrison fesses up to secretly recording Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
* The Daily Caller not only has a bad habit of shoddy reporting; it also has a problem with offensive language in its tweets.
* Wisdom from Josh Marshall: "[A]s a group, the standards of most institutional right wing journalism are just so appallingly bad that their stories simply aren't credible.... [I]f you wonder why conservative scandal mongers can't have nice things, look at the conservative media."
* Rising interest rates are not necessarily a discouraging development.
* And Megyn Kelly didn't seem to care for Erick Erickson's misogyny, either.
Anything to add? Consider this an open thread.
