VIDEO: Wrong red button  —  GENEVA—After promising to “push the reset button” on relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to present Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a light-hearted gift at their talks here Friday night to symbolize the Obama administration's desire …

Court Puts Off Decision On Indefinite Detention  —  The Supreme Court yesterday vacated a lower court's ruling that the president has the right to indefinitely detain a legal U.S. resident as a terrorism suspect, and put off a decision on one of the most expansive legal claims of the Bush administration.

Obama to Lift Ban on Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research  —  President Obama is planning to sign an executive order on Monday rolling back restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, according to sources close to the issue.  —  Although the exact wording …

Dems need Franken more than ever  —  Suddenly, Al Franken represents more than just an empty seat in the Senate chamber.  —  Franken could have been be the critical 60th vote on the stalled $410 billion omnibus Thursday night.  He'd be a likely yes on President Barack Obama's ambitious budget.

Limbaugh: My Ratings are Way, Way Up  —  One side effect of the Democratic campaign against Rush Limbaugh has been to increase — dramatically increase — the talk show host's ratings.  This morning I asked Rush if he had any numbers he could share on just what effect the increased visibility has had on his business.

Will Atlas Shrug?  A Compilation of Blogosphere Commentary about “Going Galt”  —  There's a new craze hitting the conservative tubes on the Internets these days: “Going Galt!”  While it's difficult to identify an exact date of reference or to provide any unique person with credit for the general meme …

Top U.S., European Banks Got $50 Billion in AIG Aid  —  The beneficiaries of the government's bailout of American International Group Inc. include at least two dozen U.S. and foreign financial institutions that have been paid roughly $50 billion since the Federal Reserve first extended aid to the insurance giant.

Car-truck crash kills Zimbabwe prime minister's wife, injures him  —  HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was in stable condition and recovering from head injuries Friday night after a car wreck that killed his wife, Susan, medical sources told CNN.

Now at Reason.tv: Rep. Jeff Flake on How the GOP Can Get Its Groove Back  —  At last November's gala dinner in Los Angeles celebrating 40 years of Reason, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) spoke about why the Republican party was in a shambles—and what it needs to do to stage a comeback.

CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM  —  Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the “only” way out of the global recession.  “Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism.

Shoe reportedly thrown at Iranian president Ahmadinejad  —  Protest allegedly happened as president waved to crowds from an open-top car in the Iranian city of Urumiye  —  When the Iraqi journalist, Muntazar al-Zaidi, hurled his shoes at the then-US president, George Bush, in December …

Time To Fire Tim Geithner  —  We don't mean to sound impatient, but we've seen enough.  The country is in the middle of the worst financial crisis in 75 years, and the second-most-important person in charge clearly isn't the right man for the job.  —  When both engines on US Air Flight 1549 quit …

It's War!  Union Blasts Blue Dog Dem For Saying He'll Vote Against Employee Free Choice  —  The battle begins: We now have our first Congressional Democrat who has openly confirmed that he'll vote against the Employee Free Choice Act — and the Service Employees International Union is blasting …

Naked Obama On A Unicorn Vs. Naked Palin On A Moose (Bonus: Nude Michelle Obama)  —  It's the gift that keeps on giving: paintings of a naked Barack Obama on a unicorn.  And the paintings keep getting increasingly disturbing.  Last time around, there was a painting of a unicorn looking at Barack's back side the same...

A Final Word On Rush  —  Ruffini writes: … I take the point: I originally only meant to take a mild and passing swipe at Rush's CPAC speech, and I somewhat regret wading in deeper.  (Such are the perils of blogging ...) But it's also worth remembering that Limbaugh's critics have ended …

Meltdown  —  This is the private switching system, utilized by the Federal Reserve, that performs electronic financial transfers.  —  This is the vault that holds sixty billion of the taxpayers' dollars, which moved to an account owned by American International Group (AIG).

Health ‘Reformers’ Ignore Facts  —  Debunking the Democratic argument for government-run health care.  —  The Democrats' case to expand government health care is so full of holes that passing it quickly is their only hope.  If Americans slow down and ask questions, they will be hard-put to come up with answers.

Neither Moderate Nor Centrist  —  How Buckley, Gergen and Brooks finally realized Barack Obama's left leanings.  —  “To see what is in front of one's nose,” George Orwell famously asserted, “needs a constant struggle.”  —  Congratulations this week to three journalists who have finally taken …

Could St. Louis lose its Catholic hospitals under new federal abortion legislation?  —  A proposed bill promising major changes in the U.S. abortion landscape has Roman Catholic bishops threatening to close Catholic hospitals if the Democratic Congress and White House make it law.

Obama Lobbyist Policy Doing More Harm Than Good  —  Ryan Grim has an excellent story in The Huffington Post spelling out in some detail what's been a mounting problem with the Obama administration—the ban on lobbyists is having perverse consequences for staffing:

Media Matters: The media's tax fraud  —  When is a tax cut for 98 percent of taxpayers portrayed as a tax increase?  When some of the small handful of people whose taxes will go up happen to control the nation's news media.  —  Last week, President Obama unveiled a budget outline that extends …