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 …

Rick Santorum Says Daughter Bella Has a ‘Miraculous Turnaround’  —  DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Rick Santorum made his first public comments on the health of his youngest daughter, Isabella, this evening on a tele-town hall with voters, saying she has had a “miraculous turnaround.”

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.

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.

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.

Mitt Romney picks up Jon Voight's endorsement-and jokes about Angelina Jolie  —  PENSACOLA, Fla.—The run-up to Florida's Republican presidential primary has already been weird, thanks in part to an extended debate over whether there should be a colony on the moon.  On Saturday, it got a little weirder.

U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies Provoke Outrage in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD — A month after the last American troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as well as American personnel.

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 …

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.

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:

UN panel aims for ‘a future worth choosing’  —  Current patterns of consumption are not sustainable, the panel concludes, without major change  —  Growing inequality, environmental decline and “teetering” economies mean the world must change the way it does business, a UN report concludes.

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.

The Austerity Debacle  —  Last week the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a British think tank, released a startling chart comparing the current slump with past recessions and recoveries.  It turns out that by one important measure — changes in real G.D.P. since the recession began …