Whitney Houston Dead At 48

Whitney Houston was found unresponsive in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

[TMZ was] told police arrived to the scene within minutes and fire was already there on an unrelated call. According to our sources, paramedics performed CPR but it did not work and she was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.

Our sources say there were no obvious signs of foul play, but BH PD detectives have begun a full investigation. We’re told she was ID’ed by family and friends.

The singer famously battled drug addiction for years.…

Rep. Steve King At CPAC: Capitol Hill Janitors Are Like East German Secret Police

Steve King was busy whining about having to use energy efficient lightbulbs in his office and about a new showerhead.

King compared the Capitol Hill janitors who replaced the lightbulbs in his office with lower-energy bulbs to the East German communist secret police, describing them as “Nancy [Pelosi]‘s Stasi troops,” and complained of a water-saving showerhead in his shower.

“I drilled it out and now my 12-minute shower is now a three-minute shower and I have nine minutes every day to beat up on the liberals,” he said to strong cheers and laughs from the highly partisan crowd.

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Santorum On “Concerns” About Women In Combat: I Meant Men’s Emotions

Rick Santorum says he was misunderstood. When he said he had “concerns” about women in combat because “other types of emotion are involved, it was about men not women.

“When you have men and women together in combat, I think men have the emotions when you see a woman in harm’s way. I think that’s something that’s natural, that’s very much in our culture to be protective,” he said.

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Christine O’Donnell Would Be Happy To Serve In A Romney Administration

That’s what she told New York magazine.

“I have to continue to help Governor Romney in any way that I can. Whether or not I would actually work in the administration depends, again, on what role, on what capacity, and what else was going on in my own career at the time.”…

Romney Begs Conservatives To Accept Him

“I was a severely conservative Republican governor,” he crowed at CPAC. Conservative may not be buying:

“I have never heard anybody say, ‘I’m severely conservative,’” Rush Limbaugh noted on his show.

“That didn’t get a lot of applause,” firebrand Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) observed with a tight smile.

“Some things are too funny to comment on,” a laughing Newt Gingrich commented as he walked into the conference to give his own speech.…

Breitbart: Obama “Plotted” With “Communists” In the ’80′s To Get The Presidency

Andrew Breitbart told CPAC how Obama and his “radical” friends who were “communists” who  “plotted” to get the presidency.

“I have videos, this election we’re going to vet him,” Breitbart disclosed to raucous applause. “We are going to vet him from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008…

“The videos are going to come out, the narrative is going to come out, that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver ponytails in the 1980s, like Bill (Ayers) and Bernadine (Dohrn), who said one day …

Iran: “Big New” Nuclear Achievements Says Ahmadinejad

But the Iranian president says he wants to revive talks with the West.…

AIDS Activists Want Valentine’s Day Boycott Of Hershey’s

AIDS activists want to boycott the Hersey company  because a school named after Milton Hershey will not admit an HIV positive student.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is calling for a nationwide boycott of the Hershey Co. on Valentine’s Day to protest the Milton Hershey School rejection of a 13-year-old boy who is HIV-positive.

On Tuesday, the foundation and AIDS advocates in Los Angeles will also host a press conference and teleconference about its call on the public to forgo buying Hershey candy and chocolates.

The Hersey company states that the school and the company are two separate enteities.…

Gingrich At CPAC: Unemployment Benefits Violate Declaration Of Independence

Newt Gingrich says “never again should we pay somebody 99 weeks for doing nothing,” and it’s a “fundamental violation of the Declaration of Independence that we have the right to pursue happiness.”

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Reagan Vs. The Republicans . . . Again

by Stuart Shapiro

Congress is currently considering a transportation bill, a subject that is typically an area of bipartisan agreement and compromise.  But House Republicans are nothing if not atypical.  And while they invoke President Reagan at every opportunity, they are trying to undo his program of using money from the Highway Trust Fund (funded by taxes on gasoline) for public transit and road repair.  And before anyone tells you that Reagan was forced into this:

Reagan explained why he’d made an exception for the gas tax. “It was a year ago that Secretary Drew Lewis presented the plan …

Cornucopia Of CPAC Crazies

RightWingWatch has an array of soundbites from the Conservative Political Action Conference and other sources.

Wayne LaPierre: Obama intentionally hasn’t pursued an anti-gun agenda as part of “a massive Obama conspiracy…to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.”

Liberty Council’s Matt Barber on Faith and Freedom radio: Obama may “start throwing pastors in prison.”

The American Principles Project’s Andy Blom says conservatives are too nice and should stop compromising.

Santorum financier Foster Freiss: “I make a lot of money and don’t like the fact that I’m discriminated against…because of it.

Mitt Romney: I “prevented Massachusetts from …