John Huntsman embraces the Ryan Budget and Medicare Phase Out plan with open arms.

Alaska is set to release some 24,000 pages of Palin emails from her truncated tenure as governor — documents state media first requested more than two years ago.

Former Anthony Weiner roommate Jon Stewart refutes Weiner accusations with first person manhood analysis. Watch.

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President Obama apparently not giving way to GOP threats to collapse the economy if he doesn’t endorse GOP spending cuts.

PPP just completed a poll of Iowa Republicans and found one Jon Huntsman supporter. Not one percent. One. And he’s a mildly conservative middle aged man who voted for Obama in 2008.

Rep. Nadler: Bush-Era DOJers running “Willie Horton Campaign” Against Obama Justice Department.

You’d think these hucksters would have been discredited by the US Attorney firing scandal, which centered on most of the same folks and was tied to efforts to curtail minority voting. But apparently not.

Dem Rep. comes out swinging in Weiner’s defense.

Meanwhile Weiner tells NBC he “can’t with certitude” say package photo isn’t him. Read More

More signs that Rep. Bachmann really will run for president.

Florida talk radio host hangs up on GOP senate candidate Mike Haridopolos after he repeatedly refuses to say which way he’d vote on the Ryan Medicare Phase Out plan. Watch.