- This week in crazy: The smoking diplomat
 - In New Orleans, the GOP moves past Katrina
 - Polish leader, 96 others dead in Russia jet crash
 - David Vitter: “I’ll take a TV personality over a community organizer”
 - Tim Pawlenty’s video message to the SRLC
 - Ron Paul, Mitt Romney fans battle for straw poll votes
 - Michael Steele addresses half-empty room at SRLC
 - Law murky for mom who returned adopted Russian boy
 - Mitt Romney wins SRLC straw poll by one vote
 - How hoarding shows cured my hoarding