Wingnut Blogger Jim Hoft Mistakes Closed Caption for Applause Prompt at Tucson Memorial  —  Just when you think popular right wing blogger Jim “Dim” Hoft (Gateway Pundit) couldn't possibly post anything more stupid than his last post, he finds a way to take it to the next level of numbskullitude.

Death threat at ABC-TV Town Hall event Saturday  —  Reporter: Forrest Carr Web producer: Sheryl Kornman  —  TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) -The meeting room at St. Odilia's Catholic Church on the city's northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the mass shooting Jan. 8 …

Tunisians Help “Expand Our Moral Imaginations”  —  Map of Tunisia, located along the north central portion of the continent of Africa.  (source: CIA World Factbook)  —  One of the first stories to replace the killings in Tucson and the national response as the lead story in the New York Times …

Bill Maher To “Teabaggers”: “The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Your Guts”  —  Bill Maher closed out tonight's season premiere of Real Time with one of his go-to bits: Tea Party (or, as he'd say, Teabagger) bashing.  He hit on his usual points on the subject, like what he sees …

An ex-Weather Underground radical on the Tucson shootings and political violence  —  In 1970, when I was 22 years old - the same age as Jared Loughner - I was a founder of the Weather Underground, an offshoot of the antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society.

Americans View Sarah Palin as more Sincere and Believable after Watching Speech  —  Speech does little to increase voter support for potential run in 2012  —  Flemington, NJ, January 14, 2011 - A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed …

Schwarzenegger says governorship cost him $200 million  —  VIENNA (Reuters) - Serving as California governor cost Arnold Schwarzenegger at least $200 million, the bodybuilding star turned actor and politician told a newspaper in his native Austria, insisting 'it was more than worth it.

School releases YouTube post from Loughner  —  Jared Lee Loughner, now accused in the shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, walked through campus last fall rambling about his ‘genocide school.’ The video led Pima Community College to suspend him.

Poll: Americans Split on What to Cut from Government  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  A new CBS News poll finds that Americans strongly prefer cutting spending to raising taxes to reduce the federal deficit.

Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez  —  For those who regularly write and read about civil liberties abuses, it's sometimes easy to lose perspective about just how extreme and outrageous certain erosions are.  One becomes inured to them, and even severe incursions start to seem ordinary.

Call for Bipartisan Seating at the State of the Union  —  If they're not careful, the “We are the World” people are going to sue for copyright infringement: … This could be the first State of the Union to end with a loud reminder from the Sergeant at Arms: “Everybody's invited to a pajama party at Olympia Snowe's place!”

Woman fights bank fees, missed final house payment  —  PHILADELPHIA - An elderly New Jersey woman billed $5,800 after missing the final payment on her 30-year mortgage can pursue her lawsuit against the debt collectors.  —  Lawyers for 85-year-old Dorothy Rhue Allen say the fees charged …

Retreat of the ‘Tiger Mother’  —  TRY this at a dinner party in one of the hothouses of Ivy League aspiration — Cambridge, Scarsdale, Evanston, Marin County:  —  Declare that the way Asian-American parents succeed in raising such successful children is by denying them play dates and sleepovers …

GOP picks Reince Priebus to lead as it regroups  —  GOP leaders began a weekend of strategizing Friday as the Republican National Committee voted out its controversial chairman, Michael S. Steele, in favor of Reince Priebus, the Wisconsin Republican Party chairman, and House members plotted their future at a party retreat in Baltimore.