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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is taking heat from fellow New York Rep. Peter King, a fellow Republican, for fundraising on Wall Street after voting against Sandy relief.

King zings Rubio: NYers aren’t ‘suckers’

Florida Senator and early 2016 contender Marco Rubio is taking heat from fellow Republican and New York Rep. Peter King for fundraising on Wall Street after voting against Sandy relief. Read More

Chief strategist Stuart Stevens described the Romney campaign as a series of "Kabuki play set pieces."

Romney campaign done in by bad ‘Kabuki’

Chief strategist Stuart Stevens took responsibility for Mitt Romney's loss Sunday, while also describing the candidate's "Kabuki" theater. Read More

How will Speaker Boehner respond to the president's namecheck?

Top Links: Speaker Boehner to meet the press on sequester cuts

With a busy week in Washington and President Obama again calling him out by name, Speaker Boehner will answer questions on the "sequester" cuts this afternoon. Read More

The newest Obama mural, debuted this month.

Houston restaurateur will protect his Barack Obama mural

Marcus Davis, the owner of a popular Houston diner with that features a President Obama mural now vandalized four times, is resolute - he will not stop protecting his property or his free speech. Read More

Like Sen. Lindsey Graham, Wayne LaPierre callously pushed aside facts for fear in the gun debate.

LaPierre one-ups Graham scare tactic in op-ed screed

Facts be damned: Wayne LaPierre’s specter of a lawless America - and the need for an at-home arsenal - is a fresh take on the same fear-mongering Sen. Lindsey Graham used last month. Read More

A screengrab from an anti-US propaganda film that features an attack on an animated American city. The State Department would not "dignify" the video by commenting on it.

North Korean propaganda film shows ‘evil’ America in flames

Poorly made but offensive nevertheless: The State Department won't "dignify" a bizarre North Korean propaganda video featuring a New York-like city in ruins, shown over a "We Are the World" instrumental. Read More

A young woman featured in an ad for the Church of Scientology that ran in some households during the Super Bowl.

Church of Scientology tests new brand with Super Bowl ad

Brand awareness? An advertisement inviting "free thinkers" to consider the Church of Scientology ran in several media markets during the Super Bowl. Read More

Sen. Lindsey Graham invoked the Rodney King riots to justify his need for an AR-15.

Lindsey Graham, his AR-15, and the Rodney King riots

The South Carolina Republican senator said AR-15s are necessary to ward off "marauding gangs" like the ones who took to the streets of Los Angeles in the wake of the Rodney King verdict. Read More

State Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Tenn., vigorously defended a proposal that would financially penalize families receiving welfare for poor school performance.

Grades-for-aid? Lawmaker defends controversial welfare plan

State Sen. Stacey Campfield of Tennessee is calling a controversial proposal to tether welfare payments to a child’s performance in school a potential national model. Read More

President Obama said he would have to think "long and hard" before allowing a son to play football.

Super Bowl: President Obama flags football safety

President Obama may be a football fan, but that doesn't mean he'd allow his son to risk his health playing America's most popular sport. Read More

Mitt Romney visited President Obama at the White House in November - but passed on attending, or perhaps even watching, the presidential inauguration.

Mitt Romney does lunch in D.C. – after dissing President Obama

Mitt Romney, after passing on President Obama's inauguration in Washington, will be honored there at a luncheon Friday; meantime, the GOP soul-searching continues in Charlotte without him. Read More

North Korea is using its most aggressive rhetoric against the U.S. since Kim Jong-un took power.

North Korea vows more nuclear testing, threatens US as ‘sworn enemy’

North Korea is vowing further nuclear testing in the face of UN sanctions--and is using its most hostile rhetoric against the United States since Kim Jong-un took power. Read More

NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre offered a direct response to President Obama's inaugural address.

NRA to Obama: ‘Absolutism’ to you is a ‘dirty word’

Wayne LaPierre attacked President Obama and his inaugural address directly - but let's be honest, his rhetorical appeal to the gun lobby's supporters doesn't come as much of a surprise. Read More

President George W. Bush chose not to attend President Obama's second-term inauguration.

President George W. Bush sends his inauguration regrets

Given the deeply entrenched partisanship that has defined so much of President Obama’s first term, the attendance of a Republican president at today's inauguration may have sent a constructive message. Read More

Walmart quickly ceded to public opinion on a meeting at the White House. But what will their contribution to the go conversation be?

Swift about-face by Walmart, America’s big box gun store

The company deserves credit for miscalculating public opinion and their attendance is absolutely a good thing. But let’s reserve some judgment. Read More

Mitt Romney threw a "rising oceans" joke to the RNC crowd - two months before the oceans did rise and his candidacy fell flat.

Memo to Romney (and other climate skeptics): 2012 was warmest year on record

The United States recorded its warmest year ever in 2012. Mitt Romney mocked the idea of climate change at the Republican National Convention. Read More

A conservative group is calling for "Gun Appreciation Day" to warn the president against going after gun control reform.

‘Gun Appreciation Day’: Conservatives can make this stuff up

"Hands off my guns": Conservatives pick a date to challenge the White House's second-term gun control efforts. Read More

File photo: Film director Oliver Stone talks during a conference with students at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Friday, Nov. 30, 2012.  (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

NRA whipping boy Oliver Stone’s top 10 movie scenes

Filmmaker Oliver Stone, whose film was namechecked by Wayne LaPierre at his NRA news conference, joins Martin Bashir to discuss his latest project and more. Read More

The challenge? Keeping the conversation about gun violence on the minds of Americans.

Gun deaths in America: Keeping the conversation alive

The @GunDeaths Twitter handle publicizes the stories of victims. Read More

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., wanted to talk football, not fiscal cliff voting Tuesday.

Rep. Paul Ryan and his ‘tough decision’

The former Republican vice presidential candidate may not have wanted to talk about the fiscal cliff, but he did want to talk Rose Bowl; he may not have wanted to vote for the fiscal cliff deal, but he did in the end. Read More