• Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is The O’Reilly method:
  
  
• You make the call: Does Mitt Romney wear mom jeans?
• After Newt Gingrich’s strong showing in one state last night (his own), Herman Cain is feeling the Newtmentum!
  
  Folks, only 1/3 of the delegates have been allotted! It’s too soon to call on a candidate to withdraw from the race! #tcot
  — @THEHermanCain via TweetDeck

• On the other hand, Matt Drudge followed last night’s results and saw starbursts. (And don’t worry, the link doesn’t go to his site.)
• Speaking of Mitt Romney, when it comes to his French friends, the official word is parlez vous shut up:
  

  The French daily Le Monde today explored Mitt Romney’s time as a young missionary in France and its effect on him today. The piece (which isn’t available online) notes that he learned the French language and how to face rejection, and also explores a fatal car crash that darkened his time there.

  The paper also writes that people who know Romney from that era have apparently been asked by the campaign not to talk about it.

• Kudos to the Republican voters in Oklahoma who awarded a delegate to a terrorist sympathizer in last night’s Democratic primary. Sooner pride lives!
• Oops:
  

  An unlikely Internet sensation has struck it big on YouTube: Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich.

  Two polished videos promoting his run for district attorney last month show Trutanich driving the gritty streets of Los Angeles telling war stories from his days as a prosecutor: being shot at by a street gang and sending a killer to death row.

  Within days, the videos amassed 725,000 views on YouTube … A Trutanich news release trumpeted the videos’ popularity as showcasing “broad support behind Trutanich’s candidacy from a vast online and grass-roots audience.”

  But the campaign statement left out a key detail: It paid for many of those YouTube views.

• Utah embraces the days of yore:
  

  The Legislature gave final passage Tuesday to a bill that would let schools skip teaching sex education and prohibit instruction in the use of contraception. [...]

  A number of lawmakers, all Democrats, rose to speak against the bill Tuesday and ask questions. But Senate bill sponsor Sen. Margaret Datyon, R-Orem, refused to answer questions about the bill, saying “I think everybody basically knows where they are on this issue. Obviously, the senators may speak, but I don’t know that it’s going to be beneficial for me to try to debate or answer questions.” [...]

  Now, parents must opt their children into sex education classes if they want them to participate, and districts may already choose to teach abstinence only. Under the bill, however, districts may choose not to teach the topic at all, or, if they do teach it, they must teach abstinence only.

• Be afraid, be very afraid … or not:
  

  Between 7 and 8 p.m.Tuesday night, the sun spit out a large, X5-class solar flare. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center called it “one of the largest solar flares of the current solar cycle.”

  Its “best guess” was that CME probably won’t directly head for Earth, but rather produce a “glancing blow” on March 8 or 9.

  A significant solar storm can disrupt satellites, communications systems, and, in some cases, ground-based technologies and power grids.

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• Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is The O’Reilly method:
  
  
• You make the call: Does Mitt Romney wear mom jeans?
• After Newt Gingrich’s strong showing in one state last night (his own), Herman Cain is feeling the Newtmentum!
  
  Folks, only 1/3 of the delegates have been allotted! It’s too soon to call on a candidate to withdraw from the race! #tcot
  — @THEHermanCain via TweetDeck

• On the other hand, Matt Drudge followed last night’s results and saw starbursts. (And don’t worry, the link doesn’t go to his site.)
• Speaking of Mitt Romney, when it comes to his French friends, the official word is parlez vous shut up:
  

  The French daily Le Monde today explored Mitt Romney’s time as a young missionary in France and its effect on him today. The piece (which isn’t available online) notes that he learned the French language and how to face rejection, and also explores a fatal car crash that darkened his time there.

  The paper also writes that people who know Romney from that era have apparently been asked by the campaign not to talk about it.

• Kudos to the Republican voters in Oklahoma who awarded a delegate to a terrorist sympathizer in last night’s Democratic primary. Sooner pride lives!
• Oops:
  

  An unlikely Internet sensation has struck it big on YouTube: Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich.

  Two polished videos promoting his run for district attorney last month show Trutanich driving the gritty streets of Los Angeles telling war stories from his days as a prosecutor: being shot at by a street gang and sending a killer to death row.

  Within days, the videos amassed 725,000 views on YouTube … A Trutanich news release trumpeted the videos’ popularity as showcasing “broad support behind Trutanich’s candidacy from a vast online and grass-roots audience.”

  But the campaign statement left out a key detail: It paid for many of those YouTube views.

• Utah embraces the days of yore:
  

  The Legislature gave final passage Tuesday to a bill that would let schools skip teaching sex education and prohibit instruction in the use of contraception. [...]

  A number of lawmakers, all Democrats, rose to speak against the bill Tuesday and ask questions. But Senate bill sponsor Sen. Margaret Datyon, R-Orem, refused to answer questions about the bill, saying “I think everybody basically knows where they are on this issue. Obviously, the senators may speak, but I don’t know that it’s going to be beneficial for me to try to debate or answer questions.” [...]

  Now, parents must opt their children into sex education classes if they want them to participate, and districts may already choose to teach abstinence only. Under the bill, however, districts may choose not to teach the topic at all, or, if they do teach it, they must teach abstinence only.

• Be afraid, be very afraid … or not:
  

  Between 7 and 8 p.m.Tuesday night, the sun spit out a large, X5-class solar flare. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center called it “one of the largest solar flares of the current solar cycle.”

  Its “best guess” was that CME probably won’t directly head for Earth, but rather produce a “glancing blow” on March 8 or 9.

  A significant solar storm can disrupt satellites, communications systems, and, in some cases, ground-based technologies and power grids.

Daily Kos