Syriza Rides Anti-Austerity Wave to Decisive Victory in Greece  —  Alexis Tsipras's Syriza brushed aside Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's party to record a decisive victory in Greece's elections, after riding a public backlash against years of budget cuts demanded by international creditors.

GOP clown car runs into ditch  —  Simon says the Republican Party's clown car has become a clown van.  —  DES MOINES — The Republican Party's clown car has become a clown van.  —  With nearly two dozen possible presidential candidates, the GOP is having a seriousness deficit.

Unhinged Woman Climbs Onstage At Iowa Freedom Summit, Starts Rambling Incoherently  —  At the “Iowa Freedom Summit,” Sarah Palin delivered a one of her strangest speeches yet and even Scott Conroy from RealClearPolitics, described it as the “strangest speech I've ever seen Sarah Palin deliver.”

Denis McDonough's slip of the tongue  —  White House chief of staff Denis McDonough suffered a slip of the tongue Sunday when he offered the first name of an American woman held hostage by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.  —  In an interview with host George Stephanopoulos on ABC's …

Two dead in murder-suicide inside bustling Home Depot in Chelsea: cops  —  Police said two men were shot inside a Home Depot on W. 23rd Street.  The shooter was found dead at the scene and the other man was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.  —  Two people are dead in a murder-suicide …

Fox news anchor blasts Netanyahu's ‘dicey’ politics of ‘sneaking’ into Congress for speech  —  New York Times: Netanyahu speech to Congress will har...  'Netanyahu damaging Israel's ties with US for one ele...  Chris Wallace expresses “shock” over the prime minister's decision to come to Washington over Obama's head.

Last Slide  —  No one seemed to regret the absence of Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush from the stage during a marathon session of conservative political theater in Iowa, as a string of GOP speakers urged Iowa Republicans not to buckle to the establishment.  —  A parade of nine Republicans …

Obama administration to propose new wilderness protections in Arctic refuge — Alaska Republicans declare war  —  The Obama administration will propose setting aside the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness, the White House announced Sunday …

Jindal: If SCOTUS Strikes Down Gay Marriage Bans, We Should Amend Constitution  —  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Sunday said that he would support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.  —  The Supreme Court will weigh whether gay couples have the constitutional right …

De Blasio, Obama and a Flawed Vision of Liberalism  —  MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO recently got some good news in his standoff with the Police Department.  In the first major poll conducted after the high-profile murder of two patrolmen, 69 percent of New Yorkers said they objected to police officers' turning …