Romney poised to roll, poll shows  —  A new poll shows Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney headed for a blowout victory Saturday in Nevada's GOP caucuses.  —  Romney wins support from 45 percent of Nevada Republicans who said they plan to participate in the caucuses …

Romney tries to explain remark about “very poor”  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  As the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination moved from Florida to Nevada, frontrunner Mitt Romney tripped over his own tongue.  —  It was a day he should have been celebrating his landslide victory …

Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say  —  A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down.  But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.  —  Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact …

Bribery, compromised officials leave indicted financial-crime suspects free from prosecution under Holder's DOJ  —  A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted …

For Romney and Paul, a strategic alliance between establishment and outsider  —  RENO, NEV. — The remaining candidates in the winnowed Republican presidential field are attacking one another with abandon, each day bringing fresh headlines of accusations and outrage.

THREE CHEERS FOR ROMNEYCARE!  —  If only the Democrats had decided to socialize the food industry or housing, Romneycare would probably still be viewed as a massive triumph for conservative free-market principles — as it was at the time.  —  It's not as if we had a beautifully functioning free market …

Groundhog Day 2012: Punxsutawney Phil sees shadow, 6 more weeks of winter  —  At 7:25 a.m. this morning, amidst mostly cloudy skies, and temperatures in the low 30s, Groundhog Phil saw his shadow in the little town of Punxsutawney, Pa.  —  According to folklore, Phil's sighting …

Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In  —  An entirely avoidable, and deeply regrettable, controversy has been raging this week over the decision by the (formerly highly-esteemed) Susan G. Komen For the Cure foundation, the world's leading breast-cancer research advocacy group …

The Gulf in the Gulf: Fact and Fiction on Offshore Drilling  —  Last spring at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston I watched the head of the Interior Department's office that oversees the issuance of drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico, Michael Bromwich, try to assure the audience …

Press Man: Why They Wept for Hitchens  —  One night, nearly 25 years ago, I was talking with Christopher Hitchens at a cocktail party—that this statement could be construed as name-dropping is actually the subject of this column, so please read on—when we were interrupted by the actor Richard Dreyfuss.

Why Obama should be worried  —  To hear Democrats (and much of the media) tell it, President Barack Obama is a man on the rebound.  The president turned in a strong State of the Union speech, picked a smart political fight over taxing the rich and authorized another heroic Navy SEAL mission in terrorist territory.