Stories to Watch: 1/26/12

A long day is pretty much over now. Huzzah. Now here's the news...


Romney's campaign comes within a millimeter of straight-out calling Gingrich a dangerous lunatic.


Nate Silver thinks Newt may have run out of steam.


As Mittens and Noodles drag each other down in the Sunshine State, President Obama's polling numbers rise.


Retiring Rep. Barney Frank will wed his longtime partner Jim Ready.


Mitt Romney's released tax records don't match up with the personal financial statement he filed when he officially became a candidate.


He's not even running anymore and Rick Perry's presidential campaign is still a disaster for him.


Newt Gingrich lands the all-important corrupt-politician-in-prison endorsement.


Oh for chrissake, another GOP debate?


Finally -- and not entirely shockingly -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's account of a tarmac exchange between herself and President Obama seems to be mostly bullshit.

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• Newt Hammered by... Pretty Much Everyone (newser.com)
• Watch: Newt Gingrich Attacks Romney on 'Mud' Ads (abcnews.go.com)
• Newt's Make Or Break Moment In Florida (abcnews.go.com)
• Gingrich's Grassroots Outreach Attracts Tea Partiers (abcnews.go.com)

Stories to Watch: 11/5/11

Going to go out and deal with fallen leaves today. I'm not going to rake though; I've got a mulching mower, so I'm just going to run them all over and chop them up into tiny pieces. Way easier. If I could only clean house as easily. Now here's the news...


RIP Andy Rooney.


As Herman Cain's sexual harassment scandal shows some staying power, rightwing blogs begin shooting the messenger.

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It's now illegal to even be in the vicinity of Occupy Oakland protesters, as Army vet Kayvan Sabeghi found out. According to Sabeghi, he was "walking to his home near Frank Ogawa Plaza when he was stopped by police." The police handed down a harsh street sentence for his proximity violation, as he was "hit in the abdomen four times and then arrested and taken to jail where he could not receive medical treatment." He suffered a ruptured spleen and had to undergo two hours of surgery. All for not participating in a protest, but for just passing by. "Sabeghi is out of surgery and is recovering in the intensive care unit," we're told.

"At one point he asked for assistance and they told him to stop taking heroin," his sister says. "Another time they told him he was an alcholic and a diabetic, neither of which are true."

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Newt Gingrich threatens to act like a desperate fool.


Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer displays rank incompetence. And not for the first time.


Both McConnell and Boehner are getting a little weak at the knees when it comes to tax increases on the wealthy.


Finally, we're in for a near-miss from a giant asteroid, which allows us to ponder the inevitable -- one of these days, one won't miss.

Related articles

• Charges Of Police Brutality Against Army Veteran At Occupy Oakland Demonstraton (alan.com)
• Occupier/Army Ranger in ICU: Oakland PD "jumped me" (boingboing.net)
• Oakland Police Lacerate Army Ranger's Spleen and Cause Internal Bleeding ... Then Deny Him Medical Treatment for 18 Hours (zerohedge.com)
• Second Iraq war vet hurt during Oakland protests (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Stories to Watch: 3/10/11

One day snow, the next mud. Then snow, then mud. Lather, rinse, repeat. Now here's the news...


Keith Ellison breaks down at Peter King's "OMG! MUSLIMS!" hearings. Extra: if you want to get extremely pissed off, read the comment thread. For some reason, usless rightwing bastards like to comment on stories at The Hill. Wipe the lousy taste from your mouth with a spin through Wonkette's comment thread.


Forbes' E.D. Kain argues that Wisconsin's GOP "victory" on union-busting is the beginning of the end for the party.


Some frootloop sent death threats to Wisconsin senators, so of course people who don't like the bill -- i.e., two-thirds of Wisconsin -- are murderous lunatics.


E.J. Dionne points out that Wisconsin Democrats have something that national dems lack -- a backbone. Where Sconny dems grabbed the narrative with both hands and told it where to sit, making the GOP the bad guys right from the start, national dems dither and switch sides and generally fail to get their shit together.


The Koch brothers hired sockpuppets to rewrite Koch entries. The sockpuppets got banned.


In somewhat-related news, Peter King tries to rewrite history.


Finally, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer really sucks at thinking on her feet.