Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen  —  Washington (CNN) - The United States still intends to send some Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility back to Yemen despite a terrorist threat there, President Barack Obama's terrorism czar said Sunday.

OBAMA AND BIDEN: Analyze the body language.  From the White House Flickr page.  —  UPDATE: No, I don't think Obama's facial expression is just a fluke of when the shutter went off.  His eyes aren't closed, as some with poor displays seem to think.  Here's a detail from the frame:

Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry  —  Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media.  —  “Members of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee …

U.S. tightens international air security  —  All travelers flying into the U.S. from foreign countries will receive tightened random screening, and 100 percent of passengers from 14 terrorism-prone countries will be patted down and have their carry-ons searched, the Obama administration was notifying airlines on Sunday.

Brit Hume: Tiger Woods must become Christian to be forgiven  —  Buddhism is inferior to Christianity when it comes to forgiveness of sins, according to Fox News pundit Brit Hume.  Tiger Woods should turn his back on Buddhism and become a Christian to be forgiven for cheating on his wife, Hume told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday.

Partisan Trends  —  Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Down Six Points Since Election 2008  —  In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports.

Unwelcome truths  —  It speaks eloquently to the Obama administration's priorities that it took the White House four days to acknowledge the “catastrophic breach of security” that led to the failed bombing of a US-bound jet on Christmas Day — but a scant four hours to accuse Dick Cheney of coddling terrorists.

Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble  —  The financial crisis that began in August 2007 has been the most severe of the post-World War II era and, very possibly—once one takes into account the global scope of the crisis, its broad effects on a range of markets and institutions …

Retired Air Force General Suggests Strip Searching All Young Muslim Men  —  “We have to use profiling.  And I mean be very serious and harsh about the profiling,” said retired Lt. General Tom McInerney of the U.S. Air Force, suggesting that the United States adopt the profiling guidelines …

Chasing Martha  —  We understand when politicians are busy.  We deal with it all the time.  After all, talking to journalists can be tedious and repetitive, especially when you're running for office.  —  That's why we wanted to give Attorney General Martha Coakley the benefit of the doubt …

Resolve this, slugs!  Get ‘Fit For Combat’ in 2010!  —  It's the ultimate fitness criterion.  And it's a question, even if you work out, that you may have asked yourself:  —  You may be fit.  But are you fit for combat?  —  The answer, by the high standards set by combat-embedded …

The August Attempt on Saudi Prince Mohammed - and the Link to Flight 253  —  National security sources tell ABC News that the al Qaeda terrorist who tried to kill Saudi prince and counterintelligence chief Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in August used the same technique — an underwear bomb …