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.

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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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Union Leader endorses Newt in New Hampshire.

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

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

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

Along with kiss the babies and don’t get caught cheating on your spouse, a new rule enters the politicans’ handbook: Don’t sic the dogs on high schoolers who snark you on twitter.

I think someone needs to tell Herman Cain his lawyer is not an independent expenditure committee. They are allowed to coordinate message.

Retiring member of Congress Barney Frank on the House under Republican rule: “It consists half of people who think like Michele Bachmann and half of people who are afraid of losing a primary to people who think like Michele Bachmann and that leaves very little room to work things out.”