Issa says Obama administration is ‘one of most corrupt’  —  The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight called President Obama's administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and predicted that the investigations he is planning …

Lindsey Graham: Don't Allow Debt Ceiling to Be Raised Without Cuts and Means Testing for Social Security … Looks like Lindsey Graham is continuing to pander to the extreme right wing of his base, which isn't too happy with him right now, with this rhetoric.

Dave Barry's Year in Review: Why 2010 Made Us Sick  —  Let's put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever.  There have been MUCH worse years.  For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out about 75 percent of all of the species on the planet.

Topics  —  Ahhh more hard taxpayer money at work.  —  bloombergwantsavictorymosque  —  Q: Why was Obama so disappointed when he went to a screening of The Men Who Stare at Goats?  —  A: Being a Muslim, he thought there would be more romance.  —  Uncommon Sense  —  Business as usual in the rotten Big Apple.

G.O.P. Newcomers Set Out to Undo Obama Victories  —  WASHINGTON — Soon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting to repeal President Obama's health care overhaul.

Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons  —  ATLANTA — A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page.  He has 91 digital “friends.”  Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.

Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation  —  Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction.

Is Charlie Crist a potential VP Pick...for Obama?  —  In spite of assertions made to the contrary by Vice President Joe Biden, speculation continues to swirl around the possibility that President Obama will replace Biden on the 2012 Presidential ticket for someone with less of a propensity …

European nations begin seizing private pensions  —  Hungary, Poland, and three other nations take over citizens' pension money to make up government budget shortfalls.  —  People's retirement savings are a convenient source of revenue for governments that don't want to reduce spending or make privatizations.

Deep Hole Economics  —  If there's one piece of economic wisdom I hope people will grasp this year, it's this: Even though we may finally have stopped digging, we're still near the bottom of a very deep hole.  —  Why do I need to point this out?  Because I've noticed many people overreacting to recent good economic news.

Gentry Collins drops RNC bid  —  Former Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins dropped his bid to become chairman of the RNC Sunday night, explaining in an interview that members of the committee preferred to have one of their own lead the party.

Ground Zero imam kicks off tour at Hamas conspirator banquet  —  Appeals to ‘one of the chief conduits’ for bringing Saudi-style Islam into U.S.  —  Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric behind a plan to build an Islamic center two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks …

Bet again on AIG?  Count me in  —  I lost $2.5 million on American International Group stock in 2008.  But I still want to be among the first to purchase new company shares in the next few weeks.  That's when the Treasury is aiming to sell at least $15 billion of its AIG holdings at the beginning of a series of stock offerings.

Patrick may trim legislators' salaries  —  Will use data in making decision; cut would be first since '98 change  —  Governor Deval Patrick may give an unusual welcome to state lawmakers arriving back on Beacon Hill this week — by cutting their pay the day they are sworn in for a new two-year term.

Garbage pile saves Vangelis (Angelo) Kapatos, 26, who tried to commit suicide in midtown  —  A suicidal man plummeted nine stories and survived in midtown Sunday when he landed on a mountain of trash that had piled up since last week's blizzard, officials said.