Alright, let's do this. (And feel free to weigh in on the Oscars and/or yesterday's Canadian women's curling championship final in comments. I'm not sure what was bigger up here.)

Lippmann's Ghost: Union-busting and the Koch brothers' plans for our future.

Limbo: Newt Gingrich, preaching to the GOP lemmings, apparently learned nothing from his '90s failures.

Muddy Politics: Brilliant plan or petty scam? Republicans repackage Democratic budget ideas.

The Fourth Branch: Are Wisconsin Republicans guilty of conspiring to kidnap (or perhaps falsely imprison)?

Round-up by Michael J.W. Stickings of The Reaction.

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