Jack Abramoff sits down with TPM to discuss ethics, Congress and his own media tour. No really …

Barney Frank, a fixture of the House Democratic caucus for decades, is retiring.

Congressional Republicans’ proxy war against Solyndra (and the federal loan program that supported it) has put them on a collision course with the Pentagon.

Union Leader endorses Newt in New Hampshire.

The largest and most ambitious Mars rover was launched Saturday by NASA. It is scheduled to arrive on Mars in August.

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At this week’s debate (and actually before) Newt Gingrich said that mass deportation of all illegal immigrants currently in the United States would be neither feasible nor humane, especially when it involves breaking up families long resident in the US. But for anyone who thought this sounded uncharacteristically sensible, Gingrich has now followed up with the fine print, which will leave to community boards of local worthies to decide who gets the boot and who doesn’t.

The boards are to be modeled on the local draft boards of World War II.

Bringing together Gingrich’s two great ambitions — being president and selling books.

Pepper spray isn’t the only non-lethal crowd control technique taking off at Wal-Marts today. Now we have a shopper Tasered at a Wal-Mart in Alabama. Watch.

Cop, Shopper turn to pepper spray to brave Wal-Mart Black Friday.