Letter from Steve Jobs announcing resignation as CEO of Apple.

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This story got lost a bit in the newsflash about Steve Jobs. But it’s a key signpost as we go into 2012. Freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), maybe the risingest of the rising stars of the GOP, gave a speech in Washington in which he declared that key social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare have “weakened us as a people,” i.e., undermined the moral fabric and strength fo the American people.

This isn’t a shocking statement. Most conservatives would likely agree with me that it’s one of the three or four main ideas animating Movement Conservatism over the last half century. But it seldom gets brought out so conspicuously for public consumption by a politician who is widely believed — and clearly himself believes — he has national office in his future.

The Justice Department announced an agreement under which Google would forfeit $500 million for allowing Canadian online pharmacies to do business through Google Adwords.

The funniest — and most poignant — tweets on Steve Jobs’ resignations.

Are you an old style PAC tired of watching these new Alpha-male ‘SuperPACs’ strutting around like the top cock at the County Fair?

Worry no more.

Under a new court decision, all you have to do now is go to the FEC and say ‘Super Size Me!’ Here’s how.

Rebels find Condi Rice scrapbook amidst rubble and disarray of Gaddafi’s compound.

Mitt Romney dips his toe in the toxic waters of climate change denial.

New Hampshire GOP congressional delegation trying to boot the chairman of their state’s Republican Party.

A new study concludes that Newt Gingrich did not artificially inflate his number of Twitter followers with dummy accounts.

A special prosecutor has decided not to bring charges against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser arising from the incident in which he allegedly choked a fellow justice in chambers.