As of this moment, Intrade says Newt Gingrich is as likely to get the Republican nomination as Ron Paul.

Close as we are to the Iowa Caucus there’s been a relative dearth of new poll data over the last few days. The most recent was completed on the 22nd, last Thursday. But Public Policy Polling just released new data. Results after the jump. Read More

Brian Beutler puts together a nice recap of the year’s big crisis-creating legislative battles on Capitol Hill.

Images of Kim Jong Il’s state funeral.

EMILY’s List has put out a scorecard of the GOP presidential candidates, rating each on five issues of importance to women. And the one with the best record is … Ricky Perry.

Art Laffer to endorse Newt today in Iowa.

A few weeks ago I said that Rick Perry’s campaign had descended to one long bellowing primal scream of F**********************GSSSSSS!

And since then, he’s gone even further.

Newt on positive campaign thing: F’it.

Can we rule out that the source for all those bizarro race-baiting anti-Obama email chains in 2008 was a certain ostentatious billionaire who fancies seeing his own name on all his properties? Starting to wonder …

The loss of two congressional districts in Ohio’s redistricting means Democratic Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur are now in the same district. Kaptur is planning to run again, and Kucinich announced today that he will, too. So a big face-off looming between these two veteran Democrats.