memeorandum: Santorum: Democrats are “anti-science,” not me (Rebecca Kaplan/CBS News)

2:45 PM ET, February 21, 2012

Top Items:

Sex, Lies and Rick Santorum — The politics of the double standard on social issues. — When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he declared that marriage is between a man and a woman. For the most part, his position was treated as a nonissue. — Now Rick Santorum is campaigning for president.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Politico, Democracy in America, Weekly Standard, Foster Friess, Connecting.the.Dots and Ricochet Conversations Feed

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Santorum Expands Lead, but Romney Gets Electability Vote — Fifty-eight percent of Republicans say Romney has best chance to beat Obama — PRINCETON, NJ — Rick Santorum now holds a 10-percentage-point lead in Gallup's Daily tracking of national Republicans registered voters' preferences for the 2012 GOP nomination.

Discussion: Reuters, CNN, Boston Globe, Investor's Business Daily, Arizona Republic, Hot Air, The Other McCain, TIME Ideas, Ballot Box, Guardian, The Week, Lists, GOP 12, The Caucus and Towleroad News #gay

Politico:

Mitt Romney's burn rate a boon for Barack Obama — Mitt Romney is burning through cash more than twice as fast as he's raising it, new reports filed Monday show — a clear sign that a protracted GOP primary fight could leave the front-runner limping into a general election fight with President Barack Obama.

Discussion: OpenSecrets.org, Firedoglake, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos and Reuters

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Santorum leads in Washington

Discussion: GOP 12 and Taegan Goddard's …

Rick Santorum / CNN:
Obama campaign takes a swing at Santorum

Discussion: Politico

Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Effrontery of Rick Santorum

Discussion: Washington Wire, TheBlaze.com and Pundit & Pundette

Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Santorum's WWII Warning: Fear Obama?

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Ballot Box, Outside the Beltway and Wall Street Journal

James Crugnale / Mediaite:

Watch Franklin Graham Question President Obama's Faith, Explain Why Mormons Aren't Christian On Morning Joe — On Tuesday, Franklin Graham appeared on Morning Joe and made some statements that threw the show's panel — which included Alex Wagner, Willie Geist, and John Heilemann — into disarray.

Discussion: Religion Dispatches, Balloon Juice and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:

Santorum: “You're Not A Christian” — Defenders of Rick Santorum are very angry that anyone would suggest his “phony theology” comments about the president represented an attack on a fellow Christian's beliefs. Turns out he was a bit more direct about it in an appearance in 2008 …

Mike Littwin / Denver Post:

Santorum's phony theology — I don't usually go first to Rick Santorum for enlightenment, but I think he may be onto something with this “phony theology” business. — It's not clear exactly what he meant when he said over the weekend that Barack Obama's policies were based on a “phony theology,” and not the Bible.

Discussion: The Agonist

Patrick J. Buchanan / The American Conservative:
Is Obama's America God's Country?

Discussion: Business Insider

Peter H. Gleick / The Huffington Post:

The Origin of the Heartland Documents — Climate Change , Global Warming , Heartland Institute , Heartland Institute Leaked Documents , Green News — Since the release in mid-February of a series of documents related to the internal strategy of the Heartland Institute to cast doubt on climate science …

New York Times:
Activist Says He Lied to Obtain Climate Papers

Discussion: JunkScience.com

Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
Peter Gleick Admits to Deception in Obtaining Heartland Climate Files

Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Don Surber, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, Vox Popoli, Balloon Juice, JunkScience.com, Right Wing News, Watts Up With That?, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Tim Blair, Instapundit and TBogg

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
In Apologizing for Global Warming Hoax, Peter Gleick Blames His Victims

Discussion: Watts Up With That?

Steven Bertoni / Money Talks:

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Says He Might Give $100M To Newt Gingrich Or Other Republican — Sheldon Adelson: The GOP's $25 billion man … Sheldon Adelson plays as stubbornly in politics as he does in business. So the criticisms that he's trying to personally buy the presidential election …

Discussion: Reuters, New York Times, Swampland, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Washington Monthly, Los Angeles Times, Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, TheBlaze.com, Shakesville, DownWithTyranny!, Politico, Daily Pundit, Ballot Box and Political Insider

msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: The most important seven days of Romney's political life?

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Firedoglake, Los Angeles Times and Newsy

Felix Salmon:

The improbable Greece plan — Greece is now officially a ward of the international community. It has no real independence when it comes to fiscal policy any more, and if everything goes according to plan, it's not going to have any independence for many, many years to come.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Firedoglake, Paul Krugman, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, EU Referendum, Associated Press, Newshoggers.com, Jared Bernstein, americanthinker.com and National Review

Peter Spiegel / Agence France Presse:

Greek debt nightmare laid bare — A “strictly confidential” report on Greece's debt projections prepared for eurozone finance ministers reveals Athens' rescue programme is way off track and suggests the Greek government may need another bail-out once a second rescue - set to be agreed on Monday night - runs out.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Felix Salmon, National Review, Political Mojo, Via Meadia and Financial Times

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Affirmative Action Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a major case on affirmative action in higher education, adding another potential blockbuster to a docket already studded with them. — The court's decision in the new case holds …

Discussion: SCOTUSblog, Los Angeles Times, American Spectator and Feministing

Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Supreme Court takes up affirmative action case

Discussion: msnbc.com and Washington Post

JournalGazette.net:

You choose, we deliver … Indiana — Authorities are searching for an Indianapolis man who fled on foot, accused of shooting at a state trooper near a southern Indiana highway.Today 9:03 am — Rep. Bob Morris said he did some Web-based research and found allegations that the Girl Scouts …

Discussion: GetReligion, The Maddow Blog, Washington Monthly, BuzzFeed, We Party Patriots, Towleroad News #gay, The Raw Story, Balloon Juice and Booman Tribune

JournalGazette.net:
You choose, we deliver … The Scoop — “Adding the new building …

Discussion: Wonkette, BuzzFeed, Associated Press, ThinkProgress and Little Green Footballs

Samar Zwak / Reuters:

Afghans vent fury over Koran burning, U.S. apologizes — (Reuters) - U.S. helicopters fired flares to disperse hundreds of angry Afghans who massed outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday after hearing staff there had burned copies of the Koran.

Discussion: Campaign 2012 and Weasel Zippers

Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Qurans Burned in Afghanistan Reportedly Contained Extremist Messages

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler

Washington Post:
Afghans protest burning of Korans at U.S. base

Discussion: ISAF Latest, New York Times and The Agonist

Chris Geidner / Poliglot:

BREAKING: Proposition 8 Proponents to Seek Full Ninth Circuit Review — Charles Cooper, the lead attorney for the proponents of Proposition 8, tells Metro Weekly that the proponents of the California marriage amendment will be asking the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit …

Discussion: Law Blog, Towleroad News #gay, The Volokh Conspiracy and Joe. My. God.

Capital Flows / Opinions That Matter:

The “Robo-Signing” Settlement: Seeds of Recovery, Or Chaos? — George Mason law professor Todd J. Zywicki fears that the “robo-signing” agreement will lead to further efforts to bleed the banks, all the while delaying the necessary clearing of the housing market.

Discussion: Daily Pundit

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

False Recovery 2.0: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like 2011 — The US economy is billions of dollars and 1.7 million jobs stronger than we were twelve months ago. But the same headwinds that doomed last year's recovery are swirling again. — Reuters — Let's play “Name That Year of the Recovery.”

Discussion: Associated Press and RedState

Jonathan Strong / Roll Call:

Associate Confronted Rep. Ron Paul About Flights — In March 2005, David James called Rep. Ron Paul's (R-Texas) Congressional office for some documentation. — James's nonprofit group, the Liberty Committee, had paid for one of Paul's flights, and James needed a receipt or boarding pass to document the expense.