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April 23, 2012 | | NO CONTEST Forget liberal bias. A new study reveals that the press covered Romney twice as favorably as Obama during the primaries—and declared the GOP race over weeks ago, reports Howard Kurtz. Out of Here George Zimmerman walked out of the Seminole County jail just after midnight Monday morning after posting $150,000 bail. Zimmerman put up $15,000 (10 percent) of the bail total to be released and was headed to an undisclosed location that could be outside of Florida. The neighborhood-watch volunteer did not make any statement before entering a white BMW outside the jail. Zimmerman has been ordered to adhere to an evening curfew and was stripped of his passport. He also is not allowed to possess a gun. Legal experts say it is not uncommon for a person charged with second-degree murder to go free before his or her trial. Bully Pulpit With Congress deadlocked, President Obama is increasingly resorting to executive orders and recess appointments to achieve his objectives. Last fall, after the summer’s debt-deal negotiations, Obama told aides they needed to do be more aggressive about executive power and coined the slogan “We can’t wait.” Since then Obama has pushed through dozens of new policies aimed at things like jobs for veterans, preventing drug shortages, and easing the terms on student loans. Obama is set to unveil another such executive order—aimed at foreign nationals’ use of cellphone tracking and Internet monitoring to carry out human-rights abuses—later today. But the strategy opens Obama up to charges that he’s concentrating too much power in the executive branch and deprives him of the ability to blame Congress when he issues an order unpopular with his base, like overruling the EPA’s anti-smog rules. Threats North Korea’s rhetoric is becoming increasingly violent following its failed rocket launch. The country’s military threatened Monday to turn parts of Seoul to ashes using “special actions.” The actions, according to the military, “will reduce all ... to ashes in three or four minutes ... by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style.” On Friday tens of thousands rallied in Pyongyang, calling for the death of South Korean President Lee Myoung-bak. Lee had criticized the North for spending enough on its dud rocket to buy 2.5 million tons of corn for its starving populace. FACING THE JUDGE A 2007 Newsweek cover featuring the former presidential candidate could prove key in helping Edwards’s team discredit the government’s star witness. Diane Dimond reports. | | 
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