Mitt Romney's prescription for ‘Obamacare’: Repeal it  —  BARTLETT, N.H.—Mitt Romney repeatedly called for the repeal of “Obamacare” in a Saturday night speech to New Hampshire Republicans, even as the former Massachusetts governor admitted his own state's health care program “wasn't perfect.”

Sarah Palin gets snippy when O'Reilly tries to press her on aid cutbacks to Alaska's poor  —  It's hard to say why it happened, but all of a sudden Bill O'Reilly decided last night to stop tossing Sarah Palin the usual softball questions and Hannity Jobs she's become accustomed to during her tenure at Fox News.

Saudis mobilise thousands of troops to quell growing revolt  —  Saudi Arabia was yesterday drafting up to 10,000 security personnel into its north-eastern Shia Muslim provinces, clogging the highways into Dammam and other cities with busloads of troops in fear of next week's “day of rage” by what is now called the “Hunayn Revolution”.

Sexual Sadist Denise Barnes Strips Bradley Manning Naked Over Sarcastic Quip  —  Bradley Manning's attorney, David Coombs, writes about the true reason Bradley Manning is being stripped each night and forced to report naked each morning in the same way prisoners were tortured at Abu Graib:

Republicans in solid shape to take control of Senate next year  —  An early spate of Democratic Senate retirements has put Republicans in solid shape to retake the majority in the upper chamber next year.  —  The first edition of The Hill's 2012 race ratings puts five Democratic-held seats in the toss-up column.

Why America Will Stay on Top  —  Eminent historian Paul Johnson on Sarah Palin, the tea party, and ‘baddies’ from Napoleon to Gadhafi.  —  London  —  In his best-selling history of the 20th century, “Modern Times,” British historian Paul Johnson describes “a significant turning-point in American history …

Exclusive: NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite  —  A photograph taken through a scanning electron microscope of a CI1 meteorite is similar in size and overall structure to the giant bacterium Titanospirillum velox, an organism found here on planet Earth, a NASA scientist said.

Tea Partiers Clean-Up Mess Left By Union Protesters in Wisconsin  —  Tea party supporters in Wisconsin have created a Facebook group designed to organize an event called “It's Time to Take Out the Trash!”.  They will be in Madison tomorrow to clean-up the disaster left by the anti-union protesters over the past two weeks.

Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012  —  If pessimism is not creeping on little cat's feet into Republicans' thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism.  This is because it indicates they do not understand …

U.S. Wavers on ‘Regime Change’  —  WASHINGTON—After weeks of internal debate on how to respond to uprisings in the Arab world, the Obama administration is settling on a Middle East strategy: help keep longtime allies who are willing to reform in power, even if that means the full democratic demands …

Todd Stroger applies for unemployment benefits  —  Like thousands of Illinoisans who have lost their jobs, former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has applied for unemployment benefits.  —  But newly minted Board President Toni Preckwinkle's administration officially “protested” the claim with the state's unemployment agency.