On Fox News this morning, Michele Bachmann proposed shifting the tax code back to the Reagan tax code of 1981 — apparently without realizing that would amount to a dramatic hike in tax rates.

Lanny Davis is hauling brutal Equatorial Guinean tyrant before the bar of justice — for stiffing him on his legal bill.

We’ve noted how forward-leaning the DOJ has been in pushing the Iranian government connection to the alleged assassination plot against the Saudi Ambassador. President Obama was just asked about it and he is by no means backing off.

Senate to roll out “real” jobs bill to go up against Obama’s.

Friends of Mansoor Arbabsiar, the man accused of trying to plan the assassination of the Saudi Ambassador, was so inept he could barely match his socks or remember where his mobile phone was. Not the sort, they say, who could have pulled off such a plot.

Blackberry (RIM) founder and CEO issues Youtube apology over massive global service outage.

Group opposing California’s gay history law fails to get enough signatures to put a repeal referendum on the ballot.

You never want your college roommate talking to the New York Times about you, even when you’re a used car salesman from Texas accused of conspiring with elements of the Iranian government to carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S.: “His socks would not match. He was always losing his keys and his cellphone. He was not capable of carrying out this plan.”

Inside the new Republican orthodoxy that a big chunk of the middle class deserves a tax INCREASE. Must read.

Mother Jones’ DC Editor David Corn digs up copy of Mitt Romney embracing Ted Kennedy as his “collaborator” and fellow “parent” of Romeycare at signing event in 2006. Video after the jump. Read More