Newt May Be Mad and Mental Enough to Fight On Long After Florida  —  For some churchgoers, the attendance of Sunday morning services is a ritual rooted in reflection, for others in repentance, for others in rejoicing, and for still others in all three.  But for Newt Gingrich …

Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S. … Speaking to a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach for the Palm Beach County GOP, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) fired off a humdinger of a line that within minutes drew recriminations from Democrats on Twitter.

Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)  —  The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.

E.U. Leaders Set to Admit Austerity Is Not Enough  —  BRUSSELS — Bowing to mounting evidence that austerity alone cannot solve the debt crisis, European leaders are expected to conclude this week that what the debt-laden, sclerotic countries of the Continent need are a dose of economic growth.

Aeroflot forces gay flight attendant to marry woman  —  Activists call for boycott of Russian airline after LGBT staff rights activist Maxim Kupreev forced to wed  —  Gay activists in Russia are planning to ask air passengers to boycott Aeroflot, Russia's leading airline and not to use …

Destructive Austerity, USA  —  Jared Bernstein has been emphasizing, rightly, the extent to which our weak recovery is being undermined by cutbacks at the state and local level:  —  But it's even worse than he says.  Why?  Because if you look at what's being cut, it's heavily focused on investment:

How conservatives lost their moral compass  —  There's irony here in that liberals have viewed shame as a conservative ally.  They associated it with Puritans and the puritanical who used shame, liberals said, to bludgeon people into moralistic behavior that denied their real passions and interests.

Arrests in Oakland protests rise to more than 400  —  (Reuters) - More than 400 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested in Oakland during a night of skirmishes in which police fired tear gas and bean bag projectiles, the city said on Sunday, marking one of the biggest mass arrests since nationwide economic protests began last year.

Norquist: Republicans Will Impeach Obama If He Doesn't Extend Bush Tax Cuts  —  Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has long held a tight grip on the marionette strings of the GOP.  Wielding undue influence as the head of the Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist ensures that Republican lawmakers sign …

Angry about inequality?  Don't blame the rich.  —  There is no doubt that incomes are unequal in the United States — far more so than in most European nations.  This fact is part of the impulse behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose members claim to represent the 99 percent of us against the wealthiest 1 percent.

RNC Chairman Priebus likens Obama to Italian cruise ship captain  —  Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, called President Obama a “Captain Schettino” for going on the campaign trail.  —  “We're going to talk about our own little Captain Schettino …