The Kentucky stomper appeared in court yesterday to face misdemeanor assault charges against that Moveon activist. And his lawyer said the notorious stomping video actually exonerates his client and proves he was the victim of a media smear campaign.

Conrad decides to stay as chair of Budget Committee rather than move to Agriculture. Press release after the jump. Read More

The new Bush Library is deciding whether or not the president’s notorious “Mission Accomplished” banner will be one of the 43,000 artifacts in its collection put on display when the library opens in 2013.

These White House white board videos are simultaneously quaint, bizarre and also kind of cool. The apparent success of the president’s decision to save GM is another one of these mammoth successes that so far has been only a ripple on the news horizon but should be a much bigger one going forward the next two or six years. Here CEA Chair Austan Goolsbee discusses the success of the plan …

Grover Norquist: Government shutdown next year could be key to GOP success.

Watching cable TV this morning it seems like the new idea is that this would all be better if private sector workers rather than government employees were inspecting Americans’ crotches, boobs, etc.

With Sharia law taking over America, it was only a matter of time before the other big trend in American life — financial crime — got into the mix too. The Feds have indicted three men in Chicago for defrauding investors of more than $43 million in a sharia ponzi scheme.

Intelligence community pushing for more spy satellites to make up for the fact that we can’t do on-site inspections of Russian strategic nuclear force because Republicans won’t pass START treaty.

This just happened …

Federal, state and local officials carrying out a counter-terrorism drill in Northern California Wednesday played out a scenario in which local marijuana growers set off bombs and took over the Shasta Dam, the nation’s second largest, to free an imprisoned comrade.

Jeff Stein has the rest of the story.

The House Ethics Committee has voted to recommend that the full House censure Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY).