Romney leads Paul in new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll; Santorum surges  —  The Des Moines Register's latest Iowa Poll shows a surprise three-way match-up in contention to win the Iowa Republican caucuses: Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.  —  Santorum, who has been largely invisible …

Obama Makes It Official: Suspected Terrorists Can Be Indefinitely Detained Without a Trial  —  Despite having once threatened to veto the bill due to controversial language about the treatment of suspected terrorists, the president signed the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on Saturday.

Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies  —  The benefits of his candidacy are widely ignored, as are the Democrats' own evils  —  As I've written about before, America's election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state.

Virginia Attorney General Intervenes in GOP Primary Ballot Dispute  —  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is intervening in the Virginia presidential primary dispute and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates to get their name on the ballot, Fox News has learned.

Chief Justice Defends Peers on Health Law  —  In the face of a growing controversy over whether two Supreme Court justices should disqualify themselves from the challenge to the 2010 health care overhaul law, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Saturday defended the court's ethical standards.

Tis the season for predictions  —  No end of the year political shindig would be complete without pundits and prophets gazing into the chicken entrails and letting us know what we should expect in the year to come.  Given the fact that we so rarely see end of the year, “Look how well I did last December” …

The 20th Anniversary of the End of the Soviet Union  —  In addition to being the last day of the year, today is also the twentieth anniversary of the official end of the Soviet Union, when the last Soviet government institutions shut down.  Today's quasi-authoritarian Russia is far from admirable.

New state bill could make it illegal to sing national anthem ‘inappropriately’  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Oh, say can you . . . sing?  —  And, more importantly, can you sing it the “right” way — the way one Indiana lawmaker thinks the national anthem should be sung?