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Giants Win
Eli Manning and the New York Giants one-upped Tom Brady and the New England Patriots again, coming back with a last-minute touchdown to beat New England 21-17 Sunday night for New York's fourth Super Bowl title.
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Empty Table 1, Orly Taitz 0
Birther attorney Orly Taitz has lost another court challenge against President Barack Obama's citizenship, this time in Georgia where no attorneys for Obama showed up. Administrative Judge Michael Malihi, who said ordinarily he would rule for the plaintiffs when the defense refused to appear, ruled for Obama. Malihi said, "None of the testifying witnesses provided persuasive testimony. Moreover, the Court finds that none of the written submissions tendered by Plaintiffs have probative value."
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5th Graders Invent 'Rape Tag'
A group of fifth graders at a Minnesota elementary school played a game called "rape tag," a variation on the familiar children's game described this way by the principal in a letter home to parents: "similar to freeze tag except that a person had to be humped to be unfrozen." Around 15-20 students from two fifth-grade classes were involved, said Washington Elementary School Principal Bill Sprung. The school's actions were "more than adequate in terms of exterminating the game," he said.
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U.S. Blocks Military Malpractice Suits
Department of Justice lawyers are trying to expand the U.S. government's legal immunity from exposure to medical malpractice claims brought by the military. The feds want courts to recognize an application of an old doctrine that would bar many plaintiffs from presenting claims at trial. "Congress has consistently refused over the past 60 years to ensure that courthouse doors remain open to military personnel and their families," writes Andrew Cohen for The Atlantic.
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Author: Inside Far-Right Hate
Right-wing rhetoric seems to have reached new heights of xenophobia. But is that true? Arthur Goldwag, author of the new book The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right, argues that the racist and conspiracist approach of today's far-right pundits is largely the same as it was 50 years ago. Their language and theories are taken (sometimes verbatim) from right-wing populist vitriol at early times in American and European history, dealing in tropes well-worn by pre-WWII American Nazis, Joe McCarthy and fanatical anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic Protestant preachers of the 19th century.
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DOJ Stops Riding Lance Armstrong
Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of champion cyclist Lance Armstrong Friday, ending a nearly two-year effort over whether Armstrong and his teammates cheated by doping during his greatest years. "I am gratified to learn that the U.S. Attorney's Office is closinga its investigation," Armstrong said. "It is the right decision and I commend them for reaching it. I look forward to continuing my life as a father, a competitor, and an advocate in the fight against cancer without this distraction."
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Libyan-American Can't Return to U.S.
A Libyan-American businessman from Oregon, who returned to his native country to help distribute medicine, has been blocked from flying back to the U.S. Jamal Tarhuni, 55, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was stopped from boarding a plane in Tunisia Jan. 17, and interrogated by the FBI. "I very strongly believe the FBI violated my constitutional rights as an American citizen," said Tarhuni. "I would like to know the information the FBI says they have on me, but they won't tell me."
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Ron Paul: 'Zero Chance' He'll Drop Out
Asked by CNN this week if he'd drop out of the presidential race, Ron Paul replied "zero chance." He added, "If we continue amassing delegates, certainly we'll keep going until it's very obvious. But to think in the next week or two all of the sudden that there is going to be a declaration of who is going to be the winner, I don't think that is likely to happen. So I'll likely be in the race after that. "I'll see you in the caucus states."
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Book: JFK Banged Teen Intern
A woman who was a 19-year-old White House intern in 1963 has written a new biography claiming she had an 18-month sexual affair with President John F. Kennedy that began in the White House when she was still a virgin. Mimi Alford, 69, a retired church administrator, writes that she was invited to swim with the president at the White House pool four days after the internship began and had sex with him that evening in Jacqueline Kennedy's bedroom. "The fact that I was being desired by the most famous and powerful man in America only amplified my feelings to the point where resistance was out of the question," Alford writes.
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Corporate Taxes Lowest in Decades
As a percentage of profits, corporations are paying less in taxes than they have in 40 years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Thanks in part to federal tax breaks, corporations paid out just 12.1 percent of their 2011 profits in taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office -- well below the country's top marginal corporate tax rate of 35 percent. As the Journal notes, it's the lowest percentage corporations have paid since 1972. The CBO's numbers undercut the conservative claim that the United States places a higher tax burden on corporations than almost any other first-world nation.
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Obama Has Big Small Donor Advantage
Financial disclosures last week showed President Barack Obama's campaign last year raised 60 percent of funds, or $58.5 million, from donors who gave less than $200. By comparison, Mitt Romney only raised 9 percent of its total funds, or $5.2 million, from donors who gave less than $200. "This has the potential to be a strategic advantage for Obama," said political scientist David Magleby of Brigham Young University. "That kind of involvement conveys a more substantial psychological investment ... They have a sense of ownership of the campaign."
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Mom Hits Child on School Bus
A Salem, Mass., mother faces assault charges after being accused of striking a little girl on her five-year-old son's school bus. Dominique Hans climbed aboard the bus over the driver's objections, asked her son to point out who had him the day before, police said. "He pointed out a kindergarten girl at which point she started hitting her about the head and face," said Salem Police Lt. Mary Butler. "The girl was sort of protecting herself and she was screaming at her all the time, 'Don't ever hit my son again.'"
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Met Office Debunks Global Cooling Story
The Met Office, the national weather service for Britain, has issued a blog post criticizing a recent story by David Rose in the Mail on Sunday that used research by the office to suggest global warming wasn't happening. "This article includes numerous errors in the reporting of published peer reviewed science undertaken by the Met Office Hadley Centre," the Met Office states, "and for Mr. Rose to suggest that the latest global temperatures available show no warming in the last 15 years is entirely misleading. ... [W]hat is absolutely clear is that we have continued to see a trend of warming, with the decade of 2000-2009 being clearly the warmest in the instrumental record going back to 1850."
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Romney Wins Nevada
With the closing of the final votes in the Nevada caucuses at 7 p.m. Pacific, NBC News has called Mitt Romney the winner by a significant margin. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are battling for second place and Rick Santorum is bringing up the rear. TalkingPointsMemo has the current results.
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