Cool pics of the nighttime launch Thursday of China's new unmanned space station.

The Onion has been killing it today with a running gag involving members of Congress taking schoolchildren hostage in the Capitol. The Capitol Police are not pleased.

How much damage could a model airplane stuffed with plastique really do?

Mitt Romney on flip-flopping: "In the private sector, if you don't change your view when the facts change, you'll get fired for being stupid."

Can Rick Perry keep up the appearances of his Texas "miracle" through Election Day?

Republicans again make false claim that President Obama's tax proposal is "biggest tax increase in history."

South Carolina GOP chairman just now on conference call with reporters about Florida moving up its presidential primary: "Bottom line is that if Florida moves, I'm moving."

A controversy from Rick Perry's 2006 re-election campaign involving GOP uber-donor Bob Perry (see e.g., Swift Boat Veterans for Truth) is getting closer scrutiny.

Brian Beutler on the next step in the legal battle over the health care reform law.

I mean, who wouldn't want this guy's endorsement?

Florida's move to reschedule its presidential primary in January is likely to push the entire primary calendar up by at least a month. It's a replay of the 2008 election mess and should shine a bright light on what a completely broken system both parties have for selecting a nominee. But alas it's been this broken for more than three decades and no fix is anywhere in sight. Eric Kleefeld explains the latest manifestation of the dysfunction.

A lawyer representing one of the alleged "Anonymous" defendants tell TPM there's nothing criminal about DDOS attacks: "This was merely a digital sit in. It is no different from occupying the Woolworth's lunch counter in the civil rights era."

The election clerk in Waukesha County, Wisc. -- who has been the target of liberal conspiracy theories since she found more than 7,000 uncounted votes for Justice David Prosser in last April's Supreme Court race -- did in fact violate state laws and regulations during that election but could not possibly have manipulated the controversial tally, a state review board has found.

Rick Perry: It was "inappropriate" of me to say immigration foes don't "have a heart."

As Benjy Sarlin reports, that heartless line in the last debate is causing Perry all kinds of trouble among conservatives who are otherwise favorably disposed toward him.

FBI busts Northeastern University graduate student in sting in which he allegedly plotted to bomb the Pentagon and Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft. The defendant is a U.S. citizen.

Amazon unveils its new Kindle Fire.

Mitt Romney takes the plausible argument that he's not the career politician Rick Perry is one step too far and declares: "I don't have a political career."

If the National Park Service is considering letting a member of the press join its engineers in rappelling down the Washington Monument, I volunteer. This was shot Tuesday before they had to call off the post-earthquake inspections due to weather:

Here's a more vertigo-inducing shot:

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Florida moves to schedule its presidential primary ahead of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, threatening to scramble the primary season calendar.

Dems figure they might as well make hay over the audience outbursts at the last three GOP debates.