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.

Campaign in 100 Seconds: Whatever Happened to Michele Bachmann.

The office of former Senator and now-Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) complains about a critical tweet from a Kansas high schooler, lands the teenage girl in the principal’s office.

According to an interview in The New York Times, Mitt Romney’s longtime hair stylist, Leon de Magistris, there is no gel, mousse or other ‘product’ in Mitt’s hair.

So either this is a white lie on the part of the stylist or we need to seriously consider the possibility that Mitt’s body has naturally occurring shellack-o-genic properties.

Thoughts?

Woman uses pepper spray to fight off competing shoppers at Wal-Mart.

Benjy Sarlin does the electoral math.

Is Newt’s rise to frontrunner status just the last or latest in the boom and bust cycle of would-be Mitt-slayers in the GOP presidential contest? Or is he the end of it?

TPM Reader MO thinks it’s Newt’s to lose … Read More