TRENDING: GOPer calls Obama administration ‘corrupt’  —  (CNN) - The incoming House Oversight and Government Reform chairman on Sunday tried to clarify his recent remarks to Rush Limbaugh where he called President Obama “one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times.”

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.

New GOP lawmaker gets first taste of clash with House Dems  —  An incoming Republican freshman got a taste of his Democratic opposition in the House before the 112th Congress even convened.  —  Rep.-elect Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) appeared on “Face the Nation” Sunday with Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann …

GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS ON REPEAL.... At least we know what one of the first bills to receive a vote will be in the new House. … Maybe so.  But there's almost certainly a realization on everyone's part that House Republicans are doing this for show.  If passed, their repeal measure …

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.

With Air Force's new drone, ‘we can see everything’  —  In ancient times, Gorgon was a mythical Greek creature whose unblinking eyes turned to stone those who beheld them.  In modern times, Gorgon may be one of the military's most valuable new tools.  —  This winter, the Air Force is set …

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.

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.

Peter “Material Support for Terrorism” King  —  The NYT has an editorial rightly condemning ascending Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee Peter King's upcoming hearing to attack Muslims. … But the interesting bit of the editorial is the last paragraph.

Needed: A science stimulus  —  New Republican legislators should come down Capitol Hill to the National Museum of American History, which displays a device that in 1849 was granted U.S. patent 6469.  It enabled a boat's “draught of water to be readily lessened” so it could “pass over bars, or through shallow water.”

‘Nostradamus’ of Middle East predicts unprecedented crisis for Obama in 2011  —  The Middle East's answer to Nostradamus said that President Obama will be confronted with situations “never faced by previous presidents” in 2011.  —  Michel Hayek, who delivered his predictions live on New Year's Eve …

Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos  —  Washington (CNN) — The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos, full of sexual innuendo and anti-gay remarks, were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Marx in the City  —  A look at the growing Marxist movement in New York City.  Even though they read Marx and Stalin, organize protests against Israel and play a board game that equates capitalism with barbarism, they shy away from calling themselves “socialist”.

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.