Iowa Poll: Newt Gingrich leads three-candidate race in Iowa  —  Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich appears at a news conference before a tea party rally in New York today.  (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)  —  Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has carved out a clear lead …

The Moral of the Herman Cain Story  —  So Herman Cain is out; no surprise there.  There is, I think, a moral to be drawn from his demise.  Cain was a hit with Republican voters because of his relentless focus on the economy.  He didn't get personal in his attacks on the Obama administration …

85-year-old woman may sue TSA after being strip searched at JFK Airport  —  ‘I really look like a terrorist,’ 110-pound Long Island grandmother says  —  Lenore Zimmerman, 85, shows injury she says came during strip search by security at JFK Airport.  —  An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother …

Some Occupy L.A. arrestees feel traumatized, might seek therapy  —  Most of the roughly 300 Occupy L.A. protesters were released from jail by Friday evening, with some immediately speaking out on the police raid that cleared their camp.  —  One speaker suggested that some of those arrested might need therapy.

‘Jew-hate stems from conflict’  —  US ambassador in Belgium provides controversial explanation for Muslim anti-Semitism  —  BRUSSELS - Growing global anti-Semitism is linked to Israel's policy towards the Palestinians, the American ambassador to Belgium told stunned Jewish conference attendants in Brussels earlier this week.

The Decadent Left  —  IN the days when Tea Party activists were crowding town hall meetings and Glenn Beck's fans were thronging the Washington Mall, a kind of existential despair settled over the American left.  The country was mired in an economic crisis that most left-wingers believed …