White House Escalates War of Words With Fox News  —  Anita Dunn, White House communications director, calls Fox News a “wing of the Republican Party,” after the White House began using its government blog to criticize “Fox lies.”  —  FOXNews.com  —  Calling Fox News “a wing of the Republican Party …

Obama Job Approval at 56% After Nobel Win  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama appears to have gotten a slight bounce in support after he was announced as the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday.  His 56% job approval rating for the last two Gallup Daily tracking updates is up from a term-low 50% …

Dumb “Reform”  —  Today's big news story is the release of a report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on the impact the Senate Finance Committee's health care “reform” bill will have on health insurance premiums.  PWC concluded that the cost of health insurance for the average family will rise by $4,000 by 2019, as compared with doing nothing:

Two Americans Are Awarded Nobel in Economics  —  In a departure from prevailing economic theory, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded Monday to two social scientists for their work in demonstrating that business people — co-workers as well as competitors …

Limbaugh: 'The media didn't make me, and they can't break me'  —  (CNN) - Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is dismissing Democratic campaigns to paint him as the man steering the Republican Party, and media frenzies over his most controversial comments.

It's a Fork, It's a Spoon, It's a ... Weapon?  —  NEWARK, Del. — Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy.  But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother's fiancé by his side to vouch for him.

Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president again  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she would not run for president again, and brushed off suggestions that she is being marginalized in the Obama White House.  —  Clinton, who lost the Democratic …

Why We Don't Need an Afghanistan Surge  —  At the heart of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for a major surge in troops is the assumption that we are failing in Afghanistan.  But are we really?  The United States has had one central objective: to deny al-Qaeda the means to reconstitute, to train and to plan major terrorist attacks.

EXIT THROUGH LOBBY  —  Resigning in protest is not in the American grain.  Robert McNamara stuck around as Secretary of Defense even after he decided that the Vietnam War was a disaster; Colin Powell did the same during the Bush Administration's push for war with Iraq; and in the lead …

Nevada Senate Moved to Toss-Up  —  With recent polls continuing to show Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) trailing potential GOP challengers in next year's midterm election, Reid's hold on his Nevada Senate seat looks increasingly questionable.  We are moving the seat from Narrow Advantage for Incumbent Party to Toss-Up.

McCain team gets behind Tim Pawlenty  —  Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has enlisted a number of GOP strategists from John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, another sign that he's planning a run for president in 2012.  —  Pawlenty has snagged a stable of well-known Republicans to help host …