POLITICO  A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll reveals the prolonged nominating battle is taking a toll on the GOP candidates and finds the president’s standing significantly improved from late last year. President Barack Obama’s approval rating is 53 percent, up 9 percentage points in four months. Matched up against his Republican opponents, he leads […]

WASHINGTON POST:    Former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Sunday defended a statement he made last October in which he said that he “almost threw up” when he read John F. Kennedy’s 1960 Houston address on the role of religion in public life… Santorum defended his remarks, telling [George]Stephanopoulos that “the first line, first substantive […]

REUTERS:  The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said it would begin publishing more than five million emails on Monday from a US-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers… WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange told Reuters: “Here we have a private intelligence firm, relying on informants from the US government, foreign intelligence agencies with questionable reputations, and […]

NEWSMAX: Type the word “Santorum” in Google and you won’t find his campaign website or other
positive, useful information about him in the first, second or even third entries.

In fact, almost every entry on the all-important first page of “Santorum” results — the one most users see — is laden with nasty, sometimes vulgar attacks.

USA TODAY:  Todd Bol wanted to honor his mother, a former teacher and book lover who died a decade ago. So two years ago, Bol built a miniature model of a library, filled it with books for anyone to take, and placed it outside his home in Hudson, Wis… From that idea, hundreds of similar […]

MOVIEFONE: What started as an evening that was dominated by Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo,” has turned into the expected coronation for “The Artist.” Take a look at who else took home the gold at the 84th annual Academy Awards below…

HUFFINGTON POST: Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum accused President Barack Obama of “weakness” on Sunday for apologizing to the Islamic world over the U.S. military’s recent burning of Qurans in Afghanistan. The destruction of copies of the Muslim holy book has outraged much of the international Islamic community, and Obama apologized for what the American […]

HUFFINGTON POST: The $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that President Obama signed into law within weeks of taking office in 2009 has been criticized by some as wasteful government spending and by others as too little to be effective. When it comes to keeping and creating employment, however, the package does appear to […]

by Phillip Smith,  (Issue #722) DRUG WAR CHORNICLE: Proponents of four out of five of the California marijuana initiative campaigns came together to tout the merits of their various measures at a public meeting in Mill Valley, just across the Golden Gate Bridge and up the road from San Francisco, Tuesday night. But the take […]