Thursday's Daily Brief

Thursday, February 23, 2012 Santorum Hits Back at Romney WORLD 7 Marines Reportedly Die After Helicopters Collide During Training POLITICS Newt Gingrich Calls Obama An 'Extremist' Who Supported 'Infanticide' WORLD Wave Of Attacks Kills At Least 50, Injures More Than 200 In Iraq TECHNOLOGY Consumer Privacy 'Bill of Rights' Seeks To Give Web Users More Control Over Their Data GOOD NEWS Cat Saves Woman's Life Hours After Being Adopted BLOG POSTS Bill Maher: Republican Debate Review The Republicans sure have the right symbol with the elephant. Republican debates are nothing but elephants in the room. The biggest of which must be: to someone out there who's hurting, they spend the whole two hours yammering away about earmarks and illegal immigrants and contraception and every other peripheral, wish-I-had-the-time-to-worry-about-it issue they can think of. Then there is the elephant of how they all -- with the sometime exception of Ron Paul -- nod along to insane statements just because they don't want to ever look like they're to the left of anybody, on anything, especially the evilness of Barack Obama. So Wednesday night Newt said the president of the United States had a history of practicing infanticide... yep, yep, yessir, that's what he does alright. Clubs infants like baby seals in his spare time. Ike played golf, Kennedy liked boating... Marlo Thomas: Women Break New Ground in This Year's Oscar Race What is fresh about this year's movies is the range of choices the actresses had. I was struck by the fact that this year's crop of women have moved into areas previously inhabited by male actors -- and, wow, were they good. Robert Scheer: The Gang That Couldn't Bomb Straight Here we go again. With the economy showing faint signs of life and their positions on the social issues alienating most moderates, the leading Republican candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, have returned to the elixir of warmongering to once again sway the gullible masses. Ellen DeGeneres: Lady Be Good If I've said it once, I've said it 18 times, Meryl Streep is brilliant as Margaret Thatcher. I said it would earn her an Oscar nomination and it did. I can't believe how unbelievably believable she was. Eva Longoria: Hope for a Brighter Future for Latinas Throughout our country, Latinos live in and contribute to, an increasingly diverse America. And for women especially, balancing the demands of intertwined cultures can be challenging. In recognition of this, I am creating the Eva Longoria Foundation.

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