- Kim Jong Il is dead.
- North Korea awaits succession.
- The House GOP revolts on payroll tax cut extension.
- Ron Paul leads in Iowa, Newt is sinking like a stone.
- We’re past peak Gingrich.
- He would arrest judges with whom he disagrees and compel them to testify to Congress.
- The ad war is incredibly lopsided and Romney is spending everywhere.
- The Des Moines Register endorses Romney.
- So does Bob Dole.
- The Obama administration will let states decide what constitutes “essential care” under the ACA, a big concession.
- The CFTC still can’t get the budget it says it needs to regulate derivatives.
- And Kim believed some crazy stuff.