Komen caved.  Or did it?  —  As you may have heard, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation just announced that it was reversing its decision to ban Planned Parenthood from applying for grants to cover breast cancer screenings — after a massive outcry that spread from women's groups to social media to Capitol Hill.

Record 1.2 Million People Fall Out Of Labor Force In One Month, Labor Force Participation Rate Tumbles To Fresh 30 Year Low  —  A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%.

Newt Gingrich's Nevada campaign unraveling  —  LAS VEGAS — Newt Gingrich is not on TV here.  His daily events have slowed to a trickle.  He's got a barebones staff working in a tiny space rented just 2 weeks ago.  —  The most attention he's received since arriving in Nevada came with his snub of the state's popular governor.

Faced with good news about economy, Romney dissolves into incoherence  —  Since Mitt Romney announced his candidacy last June, he has continually made two core claims about Obama's economic record, each of which contradicts the other.  Depending on the moment, Romney has said either:

A.G. SCHNEIDERMAN ANNOUNCES MAJOR LAWSUIT AGAINST NATION'S LARGEST BANKS FOR DECEPTIVE & FRAUDULENT USE OF ELECTRONIC MORTGAGE REGISTRY  —  Complaint Charges Use Of MERS By Bank Of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, And Wells Fargo Resulted In Fraudulent Foreclosure Filings

GOP lawmaker walked out on Obama's speech at National Prayer Breakfast  —  Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey (Ga.) walked out of President Obama's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, his spokesman confirmed to The Hill.  —  Jen Talaber said the five-term lawmaker “left quietly” in the middle of the president's remarks.

What super PAC filings left out  —  About the only thing more notable than the donor information super PACs this week revealed is the information they didn't.  —  Super PACs filed reports with the Federal Election Commission that outlined what they raised — and from whom — in the last six months of 2011.

Mitt Romney Was A Democrat  —  It may only have been for a few minutes in 1992.  But this is a little-known, true fact: The likely GOP nominee is a former Democrat.  —  Mitt Romney's 1992 Democratic Primary vote for Paul Tsongas — a technocratic modernizer and reformer, but very much a Democrat …

Senate Republicans to challenge recess appointments in court  —  Republican senators announced Friday that they plan to challenge President Obama's recent controversial appointments in court.  —  Thirty-nine GOP senators have signed onto a letter announcing their intention to file …

NBC2 Investigates: Voter fraud  —  Two elections supervisors are taking action after an NBC2 investigation uncovers flawed record keeping and human error allowing people who are not citizens of the United States to vote.  —  No one knows how widespread this problem is …

Obama's Magic Number?  150,000 Jobs Per Month  —  The unemployment report on Friday will give us the most tangible read to date on how the economy is performing in 2012.  It might also represent the most important number yet for President Obama's prospects of winning re-election.

Reimagining Speaker Pelosi  —  John Boehner realizes, if many Republicans don't, that retaining the House is no sure thing.  —  Conservatives are by nature optimists.  They are intensely focused on retaking the White House and the Senate.  But what if, in that optimism, they are missing a growing threat?

Q: What does a conservative believe?  —  I believe that freedom of the individual — as opposed to good works or “social justice” — is by far the highest goal any society can strive for.  I became a conservative precisely to deal with my fate as a black American born into a segregated society.