AP - Rick Santorum acknowledged Wednesday that he's probably running behind Mitt Romney in Arizona, but he implored a tea party crowd not to settle for "a Johnny-come-lately to the conservative cause."

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AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

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AP - Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his top police official say the city was misled by the New York Police Department and never would have authorized such wholesale spying on Muslims if they had known about it.
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AP - Former Louisiana Gov. Charles "Buddy" Roemer is abandoning his bid to win the Republican presidential nomination and will instead try to run as an independent candidate.
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AP - Donald Trump is telling Michigan voters that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a career politician who doesn't know how to create jobs.
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AP - A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months before Americans vote, a new survey shows.

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The Week - Newt's $100-million man makes waves, two journalists are killed in Syria, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion1. GOP SUPERDONORS ATTRACTING ATTENTIONFollowing Tuesday's news that Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson might donate an additional $100 million to help presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, GOP "superdonors" and the super PACs through which they donate are taking center stage. According to a USA Today analysis, five wealthy people, Adelson among them, have donated nearly $1 out of every $4 flowing into the super PACs. [USA Today]
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The Week - Newt's $100-million man makes waves, two journalists are killed in Syria, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion1. GOP SUPERDONORS ATTRACTING ATTENTIONFollowing Tuesday's news that Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson might donate an additional $100 million to help presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, GOP "superdonors" and the super PACs through which they donate are taking center stage. According to a USA Today analysis, five wealthy people, Adelson among them, have donated nearly $1 out of every $4 flowing into the super PACs. [USA Today]
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The Week - Unfortunately, this has encouraged Washington's instincts to deepen military ties with other states in the region. China perceives that as an effort at containing Chinese power. It has also fed a new round of China-bashing and overhyping of the potential threat from China. It almost doesn't matter which presidential candidate wins in November. Tensions between the U.S. and China seem more likely to increase in the years to come unless something major changes.
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The Week - Unfortunately, this has encouraged Washington's instincts to deepen military ties with other states in the region. China perceives that as an effort at containing Chinese power. It has also fed a new round of China-bashing and overhyping of the potential threat from China. It almost doesn't matter which presidential candidate wins in November. Tensions between the U.S. and China seem more likely to increase in the years to come unless something major changes.
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Whether Mitt Romney is too negative depends on whom one asks. His opponents suggest that he is way too negative. Mitt Romney would be pleased to disagree, noting how useful negative advertising has been for him so far.
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Whether Mitt Romney is too negative depends on whom one asks. His opponents suggest that he is way too negative. Mitt Romney would be pleased to disagree, noting how useful negative advertising has been for him so far.
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Against the backdrop of the coming of Women's History Month in March -- a national (and worldwide) celebration and recognition of the contributions and accomplishments of women of our nation and throughout world history -- it seems Republicans are going for broke in a relentless and unbridled assault on the progress and well-being of women in America. Of course, Republicans have spent the last several decades (intensified in the last several years in Republican controlled state legislature across the country) trying to overturn, significantly undermine and/or eviscerate arguably the most significant judicial decision of the last half of the twentieth century -- the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade.
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Against the backdrop of the coming of Women's History Month in March -- a national (and worldwide) celebration and recognition of the contributions and accomplishments of women of our nation and throughout world history -- it seems Republicans are going for broke in a relentless and unbridled assault on the progress and well-being of women in America. Of course, Republicans have spent the last several decades (intensified in the last several years in Republican controlled state legislature across the country) trying to overturn, significantly undermine and/or eviscerate arguably the most significant judicial decision of the last half of the twentieth century -- the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade.
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AP - A united House Republican leadership surrendered crisply and cleanly on legislation to extend expiring payroll tax cuts for 160 million Americans, skipping most if not all of the self-defeating drama that accompanied their far noisier retreat on the same issue late last year.

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AP - A united House Republican leadership surrendered crisply and cleanly on legislation to extend expiring payroll tax cuts for 160 million Americans, skipping most if not all of the self-defeating drama that accompanied their far noisier retreat on the same issue late last year.

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The Week - Under new legislation, the jobless will have to undergo drug testing in certain cases. If Republicans had gotten their way, it would have been all casesIn a rare show of bipartisanship, Congress passed a measure extending unemployment benefits through the end of 2012 — but the two parties made compromises to get the legislation through. Controversially, for instance, the bill allows states to subject certain applicants to drug testing: Namely, those who were laid off for flunking an employer's drug test, and those seeking jobs that require such tests. An earlier version passed by the GOP-controlled House would have allowed states to drug-test all applicants. Should Republicans have stuck to their guns?
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The Week - Under new legislation, the jobless will have to undergo drug testing in certain cases. If Republicans had gotten their way, it would have been all casesIn a rare show of bipartisanship, Congress passed a measure extending unemployment benefits through the end of 2012 — but the two parties made compromises to get the legislation through. Controversially, for instance, the bill allows states to subject certain applicants to drug testing: Namely, those who were laid off for flunking an employer's drug test, and those seeking jobs that require such tests. An earlier version passed by the GOP-controlled House would have allowed states to drug-test all applicants. Should Republicans have stuck to their guns?
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