Is the big money kicking in for Mitt? Santorum is still on top in Michigan. But now Mitt is picking up steam.

Scientists identify fossil as gigantic 20-foot fungus.

I’ll note that Santorum is trying to get some of that Newt magic by trying to go full rage-storm on the ‘MSM’ over the Foster Friess story. But what really comes through to me is that Santorum just doesn’t have the secret rage organ that makes it so electrifying for that core of Republican base voters. I’m not saying it’s nothing or that it couldn’t help him in Michigan in a GOP primary. But Rick Santorum, you’re no Newt Gingrich.

300 year old curmudgeon and former Sen. Alan Simpson weighs in on Foster Friess’s birth control advice. Watch.

Defecting from Mitt Romney to Rick Santorum, former Sen. Mike DeWine (OH) toasted Santorum as “human.”

Obama administration says it won’t defend law barring military benefits to same sex couples.

Judge in Wisconsin tells Scott Walker: no more extra time to review signatures in the recall against you.

Key details on the would-be suicide bomber arrested in an FBI sting operation outside the US Capitol today.

Christie vetoes marriage equality bill.

How a little joke can spark a cable news firestorm.