Alabama business community not so enamored of restrictionism.

KBR demanding millions from Jamie Lee Jones.

The MEK has lots of friends in high places.

Picking on Eric Schneiderman.

Muslims in Norway reflect on the fallout of the Oslo attacks.

Bachmann sexism watch, hair and makeup edition.

Republicans will like anything Democrats don't.

GOP Governor Chris Christie is tired of dealing with "the crazies."

Mutants.

The life and logic of an anti-abortion protester.

First openly gay judge confirmed to the federal bench.

But judges are retiring at twice the rate they're being confirmed.

When Jon Huntsman announced last month that he would not be actively campaigning for votes in the Iowa Caucuses, he said, "I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason. I don't believe in subsidies that prop up corn, soybeans and ethanol." It was assumed that Huntsman -- former supporter of the stimulus, climate-change solutions, and civil unions for same-sex couples -- was ducking out of Iowa to avoid confrontation with the state party's active social conservative base. By rejecting ethanol subsidies, he might indeed be offending Iowans of all stripes.

Suburbs once seemed like a good idea to politicians and the people that moved there, but the downsides to suburban sprawl became clear in a few generations: long commutes and the pollution that goes with them, loss of farmland and forests, increasingly large houses with increasingly large carbon footprints. But will the refocus on transit-oriented, densely-populated cities post unforseen problems for the next generation? In Orion Magazine, James Howard Kunstler suggests that the mistake we're making is huddling in bigger, taller cities that won't be resilient when energy pressures make running them too expensive.

• David Callahan writes that the GOP has softened their position on taxes when they voted to repeal tax breaks for the ethanol industry yesterday.
• John Frank profiles the astonishingly unpopular Florida governor, Rick Scott.