Even by the standards of political campaigns, Newt Gingrich’s bogus attack on President Obama tonight was breathtaking.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who now says she regrets her vote last week for the Blunt amendment, tells TPM: “I think [these incidents] are just adding to this sense that women’s health rights are being attacked — that in 2012 we’re having a conversation about whether or not contraception should be allowed. … I think most thought that we were done with those discussions decades ago.”

The National Rifle Association endorses Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar’s opponent in the GOP primary.

Still laughing at the female lawmaker’s bill in Ohio that would require men to be informed of the risks involved in taking Viagra and of alternatives, such as natural remedies or celibacy.

Inside President Obama’s secret plan to sabotage his own re-election by intentionally raising gas prices.

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Ponzi-scheming knight Allen Stanford convicted on 13 of the 14 felony counts against him.

The jury in the federal criminal trial of Allen Stanford has reached a verdict. More soon …

It’s not so much that I agree with Paul Pillar’s conclusions regarding a nuclear-capable Iran, but that he lays out the proper, rational framework for how to analyze the problem — an approach completely at odds with most of the irrational conventional wisdom about Iran. You should take a few minutes to read Pillar’s piece.