(CBS) – Vice President Joe Biden’s press office has apologized to the University of Maryland following “pure intimidation” demands for a student journalist to delete photos he took of a domestic violence event featuring Biden. College Park Patch reports that a credentialed student from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, [...]

(National Review) – President Obama is meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol. According to GOP sources, members are challenging him on a variety of issues. Representative James Lankford (R., Okla.) spoke up and talked about the Ryan budget. He urged the president to support a budget that balances in a decade. FAX BLAST SPECIAL: [...]

(Breitbart) – With more and more conservatives in the House rebelling against John Boehner’s increasingly questionable Speakership, Republican House leadership is now moving to quash in-house concerns by reaching across the aisle for support. Leadership is moving in the wake of a surprising move by 16 House Republicans to vote against a Republican leadership-crafted closed [...]

The number of people giving up their US citizenship to become British has surged thanks to complex tax rules introduced by the American tax authorities. (Telegraph) -  London-based American lawyers, who specialise in tax and immigration, report a threefold increase over the last five years in the number of American citizens who are giving up [...]

(Politico) – Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8. The five- page document, which has [...]

(Breitbart) – Republican Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad told Karl Rove to keep his new super PAC, which some conservatives believe was created to wage war on them, out of Iowa’s Republican primaries. “I basically told Karl Rove that what he was doing is counter-productive and he needs to stay out of it,” Branstad told the [...]

(National Review) – Four California high-school students were reportedly suspended for chanting “U.S.A! U.S.A!” and wearing American flag bandanas during a basketball game. While their punishment has since been rescinded, school administrators said “the incident is far from over.” Oxnard Union School District superintendent Gabe Soumakian told Fox News Radio that “we need to pursue [...]

(Washington Times) – Seeking to counter President Obama’s speaking skills with a great orator of their own, Republicans have tapped Sen. Marco Rubio to deliver the official GOP response to Mr. Obama’s State of the Union address next week — in both English and Spanish. “Marco Rubio embodies the optimism that lies at the heart [...]

(UPI) – FactCheck.org called out Senator Harry Reid for being doubly wrong in his claim that Congress has already cut $2.6 trillion from projected future deficits by reducing non-defense programs alone. The site explained that not only did the legislation he referred to applied to both security and non-security spending, but that a considerable part [...]

(Breitbart) – George Zimmerman was back in court today for a hearing on the start date for his trial on murder charges. Zimmerman, of course, was the Hispanic neighborhood watchman in Sanford, Florida, who trailed a young black man named Trayvon Martin after calling 911, got into an altercation with Martin in which Martin ended [...]