Wingnut Blogger Jim Hoft Mistakes Closed Caption for Applause Prompt at Tucson Memorial  —  Just when you think popular right wing blogger Jim “Dim” Hoft (Gateway Pundit) couldn't possibly post anything more stupid than his last post, he finds a way to take it to the next level of numbskullitude.

Bill Maher To “Teabaggers”: “The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Your Guts”  —  Bill Maher closed out tonight's season premiere of Real Time with one of his go-to bits: Tea Party (or, as he'd say, Teabagger) bashing.  He hit on his usual points on the subject, like what he sees …

Call for Bipartisan Seating at the State of the Union  —  If they're not careful, the “We are the World” people are going to sue for copyright infringement: … This could be the first State of the Union to end with a loud reminder from the Sergeant at Arms: “Everybody's invited to a pajama party at Olympia Snowe's place!”

Loughner video with ‘genocide’ and ‘torture’ ramblings is released  —  The YouTube video, which is no longer on the website, prompted the suspension of the Tucson shooting suspect from Pima Community College last year.  —  A YouTube video that prompted the suspension of Tucson shooting …

Power Again Changes Hands in Tunisia as Chaos Remains  —  TUNIS — Power in Tunisia changed hands again Saturday morning in the aftermath of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali's flight from the country as soldiers kept the city under a tight lockdown, sporadic nighttime riots simmered …

An ex-Weather Underground radical on the Tucson shootings and political violence  —  In 1970, when I was 22 years old - the same age as Jared Loughner - I was a founder of the Weather Underground, an offshoot of the antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society.

Americans View Sarah Palin as more Sincere and Believable after Watching Speech  —  Speech does little to increase voter support for potential run in 2012  —  Flemington, NJ, January 14, 2011 - A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed …

Poll: Americans Split on What to Cut from Government  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  A new CBS News poll finds that Americans strongly prefer cutting spending to raising taxes to reduce the federal deficit.

Schwarzenegger says governorship cost him $200 million  —  VIENNA (Reuters) - Serving as California governor cost Arnold Schwarzenegger at least $200 million, the bodybuilding star turned actor and politician told a newspaper in his native Austria, insisting 'it was more than worth it.

Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez  —  For those who regularly write and read about civil liberties abuses, it's sometimes easy to lose perspective about just how extreme and outrageous certain erosions are.  One becomes inured to them, and even severe incursions start to seem ordinary.

Retreat of the ‘Tiger Mother’  —  TRY this at a dinner party in one of the hothouses of Ivy League aspiration — Cambridge, Scarsdale, Evanston, Marin County:  —  Declare that the way Asian-American parents succeed in raising such successful children is by denying them play dates and sleepovers …