John DiStaso's Primary Status: Romney gets two major endorsements on eve of return to NH  —  FRIDAY UPDATE: BURTON, BRADLEY FOR MITT.  When Mitt Romney returns to New Hampshire on Saturday to make his first public appearance since prior to the 2010 midterm election, he will have two key Republicans …

Why America Will Stay on Top  —  Eminent historian Paul Johnson on Sarah Palin, the tea party, and ‘baddies’ from Napoleon to Gadhafi.  —  London  —  In his best-selling history of the 20th century, “Modern Times,” British historian Paul Johnson describes “a significant turning-point in American history …

Exclusive: NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite  —  A photograph taken through a scanning electron microscope of a CI1 meteorite is similar in size and overall structure to the giant bacterium Titanospirillum velox, an organism found here on planet Earth, a NASA scientist said.

Sarah Palin gets snippy when O'Reilly tries to press her on aid cutbacks to Alaska's poor  —  It's hard to say why it happened, but all of a sudden Bill O'Reilly decided last night to stop tossing Sarah Palin the usual softball questions and Hannity Jobs she's become accustomed to during her tenure at Fox News.

A Philanthropist Advances the Cause of Science, the New York Times Doesn't  —  Over the last week or so, I have been following and shooting down the various attacks the Left has launched against the Koch brothers and their company, Koch Industries.  These attacks have ranged from unfair to lunatic …

Sexual Sadist Denise Barnes Strips Bradley Manning Naked Over Sarcastic Quip  —  Bradley Manning's attorney, David Coombs, writes about the true reason Bradley Manning is being stripped each night and forced to report naked each morning in the same way prisoners were tortured at Abu Graib:

As storm nears and temps rise, Obama hits golf course for first time this year  —  In a sign that spring is nearing in Washington, President Obama hit the golf course Saturday.  —  Storm clouds have been brewing all day, but the temperature was expected to hit 60 degrees.

REPORT: Five Things Unions Have Done For All Americans  —  Main Street Movement consisting of ordinary Americans fed up with living in such an unequal country has fought back.  —  Conservatives have sought to malign this movement by claiming that it is simply defending the parochial interests …

Nearly 4000 Muslims Attack Christian Homes in Egypt, Torch Church  —  (AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George.

Saudis mobilise thousands of troops to quell growing revolt  —  Saudi Arabia was yesterday drafting up to 10,000 security personnel into its north-eastern Shia Muslim provinces, clogging the highways into Dammam and other cities with busloads of troops in fear of next week's “day of rage” by what is now called the “Hunayn Revolution”.

Wisconsin Tea Party Members Plan “It's Time to Take Out the Trash Day” at WI Capitol (Video)  —  Wisconsin tea party members are planning a “It's Time to Take out the Trash Day” at the Wisconsin State Capitol to clean up after the smelly slobs who defaced the capitol building during their two weeks of protesting and sleepovers.

Todd Stroger applies for unemployment benefits  —  Like thousands of Illinoisans who have lost their jobs, former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has applied for unemployment benefits.  —  But newly minted Board President Toni Preckwinkle's administration officially “protested” the claim with the state's unemployment agency.