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Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels declined Tuesday to support a GOP-pushed right-to-work bill that had led House Democrats to flee the state to avoid a possible vote on the bill. (more)

Love him or hate him, Gov. Scott Walker has captured America’s attention with his bold plan to rein in Wisconsin’s deficit by tackling public employee pensions. In an interview with the Heritage Foundation, Walker discusses the importance of his budget bill, its national implications and whether or not he is considering a run for president in 2012. (more)

Floating in the sea of state employees who flooded Madison late last week are specks of black and blue. They are not waiting for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to end his fight against collective-bargaining privileges for state employees, but for the crowd of teachers, custodians and others to get unruly. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has cut more than the state budget his first year in office: The heavyset head-of-state has also dropped a few notches in his belt. (more)

President Barack Obama described Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s efforts to cut state government spending as “an assault on unions” on Thursday. (more)

A three-day-long stand-off at the Wisconsin state capitol between union supporters and those backing the Republican governor’s budget cuts just went to another level Thursday as Democratic senators apparently fled the area to prevent a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill, which would cut public employee union collective bargaining rights and require them to contribute to pensions and health care. (more)

The crowd at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington yesterday wasn’t there to see a governor deliver a policy speech. It was a crowd to see a presidential contender, a man who many believe is the only Republican who could take down Obama in 2012. Unfortunately, the presidential contender they were there to see has repeatedly said he has no interest in contending on a national level. At least not in 2012. (more)

After initially being denied his request to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson will be speaking at the event later this week. (more)

In an exclusive, in-depth interview with E! Online’s Giuliana Rancic, “Dancing With the Stars” finalist Bristol Palin talked about running for public office “further down the road,” son Tripp, ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston, her new boyfriend, and being a Maricopa, Ariz. homeowner. (more)

“Dancing With the Stars” finalist Bristol Palin will release a memoir this summer, Political Wire reports. (more)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have delivered the keynote speech at President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday tribute event Friday at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, but one of the late president’s sons, Ron, doesn’t hold her in particularly high esteem. (more)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and “Dancing with the Stars” finalist Bristol Palin are attempting to trademark “Sarah Palin®” and “Bristol Palin®,” reports Politics Daily. (more)

Though he’s repeatedly said he has no interest in a 2012 presidential run, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hasn’t ruled out 2016, The Hill reports. (more)

After several days of negotiations with CPAC organizers, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turned down an invitation to give the keynote speech for this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. (more)

Washington (CNN) – Potential presidential candidate Mitch Daniels irked more than a few conservatives last year when he called for a “truce” on social issues while the country works through its economic problems. (more)

Not everyone can pick up on satire and apparently that includes MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. (more)

CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn, saying it was a “day of history,” signed legislation Monday legalizing civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, making Illinois one of about a dozen states that extend significant legal protections to same-sex couples. (more)

“Sarah Palin, you’re the hottest MILF in the world,” comedian Tracy Morgan said at Sunday’s 2011 SAG Awards Pre-Show, just two days after TNT issued a statement of apology for Morgan’s on-air comments about Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin being “good masturbation material.” (more)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin served as keynote speaker for hunting organization Safari Club International’s Jan. 29 convention in Reno, speaking to approximately 2,500 organization members, the Daily Beast reported Monday. (more)

1.) FCIC dissenters defend bailing out Wall Street — Two reports will come out of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today. The one written by the panel’s liberal majority will blame lax regulation and the banking industry for the collapse of the housing industry. The other, written by commissioners Bill Thomas, a former Republican congressman from California, Keith Hennessey, former chairman of the White House National Economic Council under President George W. Bush, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, spreads the blame more broadly among “investors, creditors, regulators, homebuyers, and politicians,” all of whom must take “personal responsibility.” The dissenters also defended bailing out Wall Street: “For a policymaker, the calculus is simple: if you bail out AIG and you’re wrong, you will have wasted taxpayer money and provoked public outrage,” the paper reads. “If you don’t bail out AIG and you’re wrong, the global financial system collapses. It should be easy to see why policymakers favored action–there was a chance of being wrong either way, and the costs of being wrong without action were far greater than the costs of being wrong with action.” Thank goodness we didn’t destabilize the global financial system, which might have led to really scary stuff, like high unemployment. (more)