Issa says Obama administration is ‘one of most corrupt’  —  The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight called President Obama's administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and predicted that the investigations he is planning …

NYC sanitation workers caught boozing instead of working during blizzard  —  Forget New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.  —  For those of us following the disastrous clean-up, or lack of it, in New York City, the public sector workers of sanitation are having the worst week.

Lindsey Graham: Don't Allow Debt Ceiling to Be Raised Without Cuts and Means Testing for Social Security … Looks like Lindsey Graham is continuing to pander to the extreme right wing of his base, which isn't too happy with him right now, with this rhetoric.

Dave Barry's Year in Review: Why 2010 Made Us Sick  —  Let's put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever.  There have been MUCH worse years.  For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out about 75 percent of all of the species on the planet.

G.O.P. Newcomers Set Out to Undo Obama Victories  —  WASHINGTON — Soon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting to repeal President Obama's health care overhaul.

Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons  —  ATLANTA — A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page.  He has 91 digital “friends.”  Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.

Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation  —  Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction.

Gentry Collins drops RNC bid  —  Former Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins dropped his bid to become chairman of the RNC Sunday night, explaining in an interview that members of the committee preferred to have one of their own lead the party.

Bet again on AIG?  Count me in  —  I lost $2.5 million on American International Group stock in 2008.  But I still want to be among the first to purchase new company shares in the next few weeks.  That's when the Treasury is aiming to sell at least $15 billion of its AIG holdings at the beginning of a series of stock offerings.

Ground Zero imam kicks off tour at Hamas conspirator banquet  —  Appeals to ‘one of the chief conduits’ for bringing Saudi-style Islam into U.S.  —  Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric behind a plan to build an Islamic center two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks …

Egyptian Security Guards Withdrew One Hour Before Church Blast, Say Eyewitnesses  —  (AINA) — The car explosion that went off in front of Saints Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria killed 21 and injured 96 parishioners who were attending a New Year's Eve Mass. According to church officials and eyewitnesses …

With Air Force's new drone, ‘we can see everything’  —  In ancient times, Gorgon was a mythical Greek creature whose unblinking eyes turned to stone those who beheld them.  In modern times, Gorgon may be one of the military's most valuable new tools.  —  This winter, the Air Force is set …

Peter “Material Support for Terrorism” King  —  The NYT has an editorial rightly condemning ascending Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee Peter King's upcoming hearing to attack Muslims. … But the interesting bit of the editorial is the last paragraph.

Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos  —  Washington (CNN) — The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos, full of sexual innuendo and anti-gay remarks, were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.