The boss, who’s something of a gold standard enthusiast, is excited: Newt Gingrich called this morning for a Gold Commission, like the one Ronald Reagan set up in 1981, to consider how to get back to hard money (and perhaps to gold).

Alana Goodman, writing at the New York Post: 

Last December, a top anti-Semitism watchdog group accused the Center for American Progress, a prominent Washington think tank, of peddling anti-Israel and borderline anti-Semitic material on its Web site and Twitter feeds. Six days later, President Obama met for coffee with the man who oversaw the offending content — Faiz Shakir, the site’s editor-in-chief.

The Tikvah Fund is hosting an evening with Yuval Levin and Leon Wieseltier tomorrow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. on "America, Israel, and the Future of Liberal Democracy." Here are the details: 

Steve Hayes, with Kirsten Powers and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:

Last night, referring to the Republican presidential race, Sean Hannity asked Sarah Palin, “You haven’t given an endorsement.  Are you gettin’ any closer to giving an endorsement?” The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate replied:

You might have noticed recently that Barack Obama’s job approval has ticked up slightly in the last few weeks. What to make of this?

Here is the RealClearPolitics average:

Two months ago, the president’s job approval was 43.7 percent. Today, it is 46.0 percent, an uptick of 2.3 points. We see this more or less in specific polls as well.

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In the back room at the Flight Deck restaurant Tuesday afternoon, a voter posed an interesting question to Rick Santorum. What is Santorum’s own view of the Constitution, the voter wanted to know, given that Ron Paul frequently casts himself as the only candidate who wants to adhere to the Constitution? In response, Santorum fished out of his pocket his miniature copy of the Constitution and held it tightly in his hand.

Three days before the South Carolina Republican primary, the press corps is poised to declare the GOP race over. If Mitt Romney follows up his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire with a win in the South, the media will tell Republicans in the other 47 states that there’s no need for them to cast votes in a democratic fashion, Romney’s coronation being inevitable.

One of the European parliament’s most influential members, the German Christian Democrat Elmar Brok, has declared that Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade the credit ratings of nine eurozone member states is part of a “currency war” being waged by the United States against the euro and Europe itself.

The latest Rasmussen poll from South Carolina shows little movement, aside from Mitt Romney apparently having picked up almost all of the support that previously went to Jon Huntsman.

My colleague Michael Warren recently asked Jon Huntsman to comment on why he had failed to appeal to Republican voters, and got this response: