0303 says on the House floor that "I believe, as we stand on the abyss tonight, for those Americans who are wont to turn to God for answers that this is a time to be doing that, to ask for his help, supernaturally, so that we don't make this fatal step pushing our nation into socialized medicine"

0127 raises eyebrows by shaking his head scornfully and saying "not true" during the State of the Union address after Barack Obama criticizes the Citizens United ruling

0303 arrested for drunk driving after leaving a gay nightclub in Sacramento with a gentleman companion

0304 West Sacramento mayor Christopher Cabaldon, who is openly gay, tells CBS13 that Ashburn was a fixture at gay clubs for years even as he was speaking at anti-gay rallies and voting against gay rights

0308 acknowledges that he's gay

0313 tells a St. Paul audience that, if health insurance reform legislation passes, "we're not gonna pay their taxes" because "we don't have to"

0304 sends out an email comparing Michelle Obama to a chimp, saying "I don't care who you are, this is funny"

0306 loses his $50,000 contract with the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau; says he's surprised, as he saw the email as nothing more than "political humor"

0308 is fired

0122 argues for the cancellation of programs providing school lunches to poor children because with an "ample food supply, they will reproduce"

0215 abruptly announces that he will not seek re-election to the Senate despite a big lead in the polls

0220 delivers a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in which he: • says that "the cancer that's eating at America" is government spending • attributes this insight to the education he gained at his local public library, where "books are free" • appears not to comprehend that public libraries are an example of government spending

0302 urges listeners to leave any church that supports social justice

0311 calls the notion of social justice "a perversion of the Gospel"

0304 shoots and wounds two police officers at the Pentagon subway station in order to protest taxes, marijuana prohibition, and the supposed government demolition of the World Trade Center; is shot dead

0202 describes the movie Avatar as "this new program that I looked at it and wished I were seeing it in 3-D, and you sit there and you watch this science fiction thing unfold in front of you"

0212 shoots five of her fellow biology professors, killing three, and wounds a staffer after being denied tenure

0214 revealed to have fatally shot her brother in 1986 and been a suspect in an attempted mail bombing at Harvard in 1993

0215 revealed to have held up an auto-body worker at gunpoint in 1986, looking for a getaway car after shooting her brother

0111 tells Esquire that he is "blacker than Barack Obama" since his childhood apartment was barely above average in size

0127 reverses course and comes out against holding al-Qaeda trials in Manhattan after local groups (e.g., Wall Street executives) object

0105 writes an open letter demanding that the health care reconciliation negotiations be televised on C-SPAN

0209 complains on Fox News that Barack Obama is planning to televise the upcoming health care summit on C-SPAN

0204 claims Paul Ryan's plan for Social Security and Medicare to be phased out doesn't represent the Republican position; when asked what in it he disagrees with, replies, "I couldn't tell you"

0223 after complaining that the Democrats' previous health care reform plan was too long (2009.1030), complains that the new one is too short

0119 elected to succeed Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate; announces during his victory speech that his college-age daughters "are both available"

0128 tells the AP that he hopes to use his newfound celebrity to meet cyclist Lance Armstrong, "just like to say hi, just to like hug him"

0218 says Joe Stack's attack on the Austin IRS office is understandable because "no one likes paying taxes, obviously"

0225 single-handedly blocks extension of unemployment benefits; shouts "Tough shit!" when Jeff Merkley (D-OR) complains

0301 triggers a 21% pay cut to doctors who treat Medicare patients; flips his middle finger at ABC reporters who attempt to ask him whether he's concerned about the unemployed people whose benefits he has blocked

0226 tells the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association that the reason he's been invisible since leaving office is that when he was president Jimmy Carter made his life miserable

0202 says that repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy would lead to "alcohol use, adultery, fraternization, and body art" in the military

0222 has fifth heart attack, still refuses to die

0302 refers to Department of Justice lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees as "the al-Qaeda 7" and the entire department as the "Department of Jihad" (with fig-leaf question mark), and flashes pictures of Osama bin Laden while asking, "Whose values do they share?"

0308 scolded by 19 conservative lawyers, including Ken Starr, for her "shameful series of attacks," reminding her that John Adams represented the British soldiers charged in the Boston massacre

0211 has heart surgery

0106 leads Scott Brown by 15 points in UNH poll

0112 runs an ad in which the word "Massachusetts" is misspelled

0113 in an interview with the Boston Globe, scoffs at the idea of campaigning "in the cold, shaking hands"

0115 refers to Curt Schilling, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (2004-2008), as a fan of the rival New York Yankees

0117 holds 19th campaign event, bringing her up to only 47 fewer than Scott Brown

0119 loses to Scott Brown by five points

0204 announces intention to run for his old Senate seat, currently occupied by Evan Bayh

0205 appears in an Evan Bayh ad telling a North Carolina audience that he hopes to move into his NC vacation home full-time and "be a North Carolinian," but "don't tell the good people of Indiana"

0202 wins nomination as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Illinois

0203 revealed to have been arrested in 2005 for holding a knife to the throat of his prostitute girlfriend

0204 explains to Chicago Tonight that the assault was not his fault but was instead the fault of the intravenous steroids he was abusing at the time; adds that they were also to blame for his attempted rape of his then-wife

0207 drops out of the race

0111 tells MSNBC that Trent Lott's endorsement of a segregationist presidential candidate was "far more innocuous" than Harry Reid's use of the word "Negro"; see false equivalency

0219 asked whether her comparison of the invasion and occupation of Iraq to World War II is apt, replies, "Uhhhmm... well, in the sense that they're both wars"

0107 joins Reuters from the online edition of the Wall Street Journal

0201.4p writes story about Obama budget titled "Backdoor taxes to hit middle class"

0201.8p story is withdrawn by Reuters until "significant errors of fact" can be corrected

0202 Reuters says story has too many errors to be corrected

0205 leaves Reuters

0121 defends Trijicon's addition of Bible references to U.S. weaponry on the grounds that Muslim suicide bombers shout the takbir, "so if anybody's making this a religious thing, they started it"

0208 defends Sarah Palin's writing on her hand to help her through a Q&A session, saying "I do that all the time"

0121 defends Trijicon's addition of Bible references to U.S. weaponry on the grounds that Muslim suicide bombers shout the takbir, "so if anybody's making this a religious thing, they started it"

0121 admits that he is the father of his former mistress Rielle Hunter's daughter (b. 2008.0207), after denying that he was the father during his admission of the affair (2008.0808), after denying the affair

0203 releases an ad depicting primary opponent Tom Campbell as a demonic sheep

0208 tells a group of business leaders that California should consider filing for bankruptcy, even though states cannot file for bankruptcy

0111 orchestrates Mark McGwire's confession that he had used steroids

0311 reported to have been hired by Tiger Woods to repair his image

0105 said by the New York Times to be considering a challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) despite ten years representing Tennessee in the U.S. House

0111 tells Chris Matthews, "I am a New Yorker, I am a New Yorker, I am a New Yorker, I am a New Yorker" in a Southern accent

0113 tells the New York Times that he has visited all five boroughs because his helicopter once landed in Staten Island

0201 refers to Gillibrand, four years his senior, as "the young lady I'm looking at running against"

0212 spokeswoman reveals that he has never paid New York state taxes

0301 elects not to run for Senate after all

0226 says "far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today" — i.e., legal abortion — "than were being devastated by the policies of slavery"

0311 admits that in 1985, when he was 30, he and a 15-year-old employee of his were naked in a hot tub together, and that in 2002 he paid her $150,000 not to tell anyone

0313 resigns

0205 claims in a deposition that he hasn't had sex since 1995, not with his wife and not with either of his two suspected mistresses

0222 repeatedly lies to a Las Vegas reporter about whether Kathy Karrasch, a married woman with whom he had exchanged hundreds of late-night text messages, was traveling with him — even though she's right there and they leave in the same car

0223 apologizes for "any ambiguity" caused by his unambiguous lies

0225 appears in a photo with Karrasch at the meeting from which they were returning... along with fellow philandering governor Mark Sanford

0209 tells Jon Stewart that it was okay for the Bush Administration to provide shoe bomber Richard Reid with Miranda rights but not for the Obama Administration to provide underpants bomber Umar Abdulmutallab with them because the British subject Reid was an American citizen

0224 refers to Senate procedures that require 51 votes rather than 60 as "kind of a Hugo Chavez majoritarian rule"

0106 tells Larry King that the six-day delay in Bush's response to the attempted shoe bombing of AA 63 (2001.1222) was excusable because it happened before the 9/11 attacks (2001.0911)

0108 tells Good Morning America that "we had no domestic attacks under Bush," suggesting that neither the attempted shoe bombing nor the 9/11 attacks ever happened

0215 gets into an altercation with Mitt Romney on an Air Canada flight after Romney tells him to put his seat upright for takeoff

0315 tells a radio audience that Democrats are about to commit political suicide by passing health insurance reform because "Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake"

0314 tells WORL in Orlando that, if you accept the redefinition of marriage away from one man and one woman, "I guess you could marry your horse"

0219 argues that by extending benefits to the unemployed the government is "creating hobos"

0103 tells Fox News Sunday that Tiger Woods must convert to Christianity from inferior Buddhist religion

0202 tells All Things Considered that repealing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy would lead to an influx of "hermaphrodites"

0115 arrested for drunk driving

0116 resigns

0114 appears on The Jay Leno Show to whine that Leno should stay out of his timeslot because Leno is rich and childless while Kimmel must raise two children on an annual salary of merely $6 million

0106 tells Good Morning America that his chief recommendation to improve national security is that Barack Obama say the word "terrorism" more often

0220 tells the Conservative Political Action Conference that he empathizes with Joe Stack's kamikaze attack on the IRS because he too would like to destroy it

0316 calls for health insurance reform opponents to "storm this city, fill up Washington D.C.," arguing that Democratic control of the U.S. government "is very, very close" to communist rule in Cold War Czechoslovakia

0212 dies after crashing into a steel pole at 90 mph at the Olympics

0225 complains that the Senate health care bill would require health insurance to cover over 60% of costs, rather than the current average of 48%

0125 targeted by a group of men (including right-wing activist and noted fake pimp James O'Keefe) who are arrested after attempting to tamper with the phones in her office

0215 hospitalized after a fall

0216 undergoes surgery

0219 releases statement revealing a diagnosis of stomach cancer

0101 after hospital stay, praises U.S. health care system as the best in the world for people with a net worth of several hundred million dollars

0113 says the earthquake in Haiti was "made to order" for the Obama Administration as an opportunity to win favor with blacks

0203 refers to the visit of a Special Olympics delegation to the White House as a "retard summit"

0225 responds to health summit anecdote about a woman, unable to afford dentures, wearing her dead sister's: "So what? So if you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for? Isn't that why they make applesauce?"

0116 condemns FBI for creating a picture of an aged Osama bin Laden by digitally combining a photo of Osama with one of him that the FBI found on Google Images

0302 releases an ad arguing that "government-run health care is wrong" because it will weaken Medicare, a government-run health care program

0218 says that after an abortion, "nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children," inflicting them with disabilities because "the first born of every being, animal and man" should be "dedicated to the Lord"

0208 is charged with sexual harassment after attending a staffer's wedding, hearing a drunken staffer say he should pursue a bridesmaid, and responding by grabbing another staffer and saying "what I really ought to be doing is fracking you" (2009.1231)

0305 announces his resignation

0307 explains his behavior by recounting that during his 24 years in the Navy, he was used to forcing new sailors to stick their faces in other sailors' crotches and offering to help his roommate masturbate, and was therefore just going with what he knew; also claims to have been confronted by a naked, aggressive Rahm Emanuel while showering in the House gym

0309 tells Glenn Beck that the newest charge of sexual harassment stemmed from a "tickle fight" with male staffers on his 50th birthday, and that, again, he didn't realize it was wrong because a typical day in the Navy "looks like an orgy in Caligula, and anybody that's been in the Navy knows it"

0127 says that during the State of the Union address he forgot that Barack Obama was black

0120 appears in an ad opposing California's Proposition 8, which eliminated same-sex marriage in the state

0120 admonishes National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter for correcting McCain's assertion that attempted underpants bomber Umar Abdulmutallab bought a one-way ticket to the U.S. (it was actually round-trip); Leiter apologizes

0202 sharply disagrees with Joint Chiefs chair Mike Mullen's recommendation to allow gays to serve openly in the U.S. military, despite having said (2006.1018) that he would support such a change when military leaders did

0203 again claims Abdulmutallab should have been caught because "he showed up on a one-way ticket"

0222 claims that he only voted for the Wall Street bailout (2008.1001) because he thought it was targeted at the housing market, contradicting his speeches at the time

0224 claims that Barack Obama suspended his presidential campaign the same time he did (2008.0924), though in fact Obama explicitly refused to do so

0116 inaugurated

0127 in Republican response to the State of the Union address, declares that "we are blessed here in America with vast natural resources, and we must use them all"

0205 rescinds policy protecting gay state employees from discrimination

0111 confesses that his 70 HR season in 1998, breaking a 37-year record and reviving interest in baseball after the '94 strike, was fueled by steroids

0202 tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that homosexuals should be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military

0120 tells lifesitenews.com that his plan in voting for the Senate health care bill was to wait until the bill came out of conference for a final vote and then demand further concessions

0222 joins a Republican filibuster of a jobs bill, though the filibuster is defeated when five Republicans defect

0309 calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme

0112 rejects NBC's plan to bump his Tonight Show to 12:05 a.m. in order to accommodate a new 11:35 p.m. show featuring former Tonight host Jay Leno

0122 accepts a $45 million buyout instead, leaves NBC

0125 arrested with three other men for attempting to tamper with the phones in Mary Landrieu's office

0126 ordered by the U.S. District Court to live with his parents

0301 ACORN is cleared of all charges as his fake pimp tape turns out to have been doctored

0115 laments that "48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs [...] but now we can't"

0117 campaigns on behalf of Martha Coakley, who despite being a Democrat in Massachusetts goes on to lose her Senate race by five points

0127 delivers State of the Union address

0129 takes questions from House Republicans, who scoff at the notion that the center-right health care bill is "pretty centrist" and cheer the mocking suggestion that it is "some Bolshevik plot"

0129 credited with a recorded statement deploring global warming

0106 starts PR firm at age 19

0122 appears less than thrilled as her mother eagerly discusses Bristol's sex life during a joint appearance The Oprah Winfrey Show

0111 signs on as a paid contributor to Fox News

0113 tells Glenn Beck that her favorite American founder is "all of them"

0122 during a joint appearance with daughter Bristol on The Oprah Winfrey Show: • when Bristol is asked whether her vow not to have sex [again] until she's married is realistic, interrupts to say it's unrealistic for others but not for Bristol • asks Bristol, "Hey, does that mean you're gonna marry pretty young?", to which Bristol mumbles, "I don't know, Mom"

0206 at the for-profit "National Tea Party Convention" in Nashville: • mocks Barack Obama for using a teleprompter • during the ensuing Q&A session, reads answers off her hand • has her crib notes photographed; one says "Budget Cuts" with the word "Budget" crossed out and replaced with "Tax," resulting in the exact opposite policy deficit-wise • laments that "people who are seeking freedom wonder if Alaska is still the beacon of hope for their cause" • wears a miniskirt • receives $100,000

0207 defends Rush Limbaugh's use of the phrase "retard summit," calling it "satirical"

0215 complains about a Family Guy episode in which a character with Down Syndrome says, "My dad's an accountant, and my mom is the former governor of Alaska," which is apparently insufficiently satirical

0218 receives a reply from the actress, who also has Down Syndrome: "My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes"

0305 tells an Ohio crowd that it was okay for her to write on her hand because "it was good enough for God" in Isaiah 49:16

0306 tells a Calgary audience that when she was a child her family crossed the border to take advantage of the Canadian medical system she frequently derides; this may seem like hypocrisy, though the Washington Post notes that in 2007 she told the same story about going to Juneau, so maybe it's just a lie

0220 launches campaign for another term as governor

0224 the New York Times charges that he called a woman to pressure her to drop assault charges against top aide David Johnson

0226 ends campaign

0220 wins Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, with Mitt Romney a distant second

0222 tells Fox News that a good way to cut health care costs would be to allow emergency rooms to refuse treatment to patients

0113 scores novelty hit with self-penned composition "Pants on the Ground" decrying improperly worn trousers

0201 reports the campaign of primary opponent and fellow billionaire Meg Whitman to law enforcement for threatening in an email "to spend $40M+ tearing up Steve"

0212 tells Fox News that passing legislation through budget reconciliation, as regularly happened during the G.W. Bush Administration, "would set a bad precedent" because "you have 51 votes in the House and 51 votes in the Senate" and "that is not the constitutional process"

0109 apologizes to Barack Obama after being quoted in a book saying the country could embrace a black candidate who, like Obama, was "light-skinned" "with no Negro dialect"

0110 called upon by Republicans to follow Trent Lott's example and resign; see false equivalency

0211 sues the Lower Merion School District for using the webcam in his school-issued laptop to secretly take photos of him in his home

0104 appears in this photo posted by the Washington Independent

0111 is discovered to have posted a less controversial if perhaps less convincing version of the photo on his own site

0127 continues to show off Photoshop skills in a fundraising email depicting Barack Obama as a flamboyant pimp

0212 calls Sarah Palin "a duck out of water among true Conservative Constitutionalists" with a "NeoCon flippant viewpoint" who "represents a growing insider's attack to the heart of the Tea Party"

0113 says Haiti was hit by an earthquake because the Haitians' ancestors "swore a pact to the devil" in exchange for independence (1804) from Napoleon III (1808-1873)

0215 gets into an altercation with rapper Skyler Gordy on an Air Canada flight after telling him to put his seat upright for takeoff

0127 releases an updated version of his "Roadmap for America's Future" calling for Social Security and Medicare to be phased out

0310 budget plan, hailed as a serious attempt at reining in deficits, is scored by the Tax Policy Center, which concludes that it would: • "result in very large revenue losses relative to current policies," increasing deficits • raise taxes on those making under $75,000 • give millionaires an average tax cut of $600,000

0128 dies at age 91

0227 during CNN's tsunami coverage following the Chilean earthquake, identifies the Galapagos Islands as Hawaii, then asks a visiting scientist, "Nine meters in English is...?"

0205 in her book Staying True reveals that her husband Mark: • struck the promise to be faithful from their wedding vows • slept with his brothers rather than her while visiting home • drew her a picture of half a bicycle for her birthday • had buyer's remorse over a necklace he'd given her and returned it • quit Lamaze class because "I've spent many long nights helping cows give birth and I know what to do"

0205 is the subject of a book by estranged wife Jenny; see Sanford, Jenny

0204 places a "blanket hold" on all 70+ of Barack Obama's pending nominees, blocking their confirmation until Northrop receives a $40b earmark to build tankers in Alabama

0213 thrown off plane for being too fat

0130 wanders onstage during a campaign appearance by primary opponent Joe Sestak

0218 sets his house on fire, then crashes his private plane into the Austin IRS building to protest Section 1706 of the 1986 Tax Reform Act photo

0104 publishes a book on "defeating the Obama agenda," surprising Republican congressional leaders

0107 tells ABC that Republican critics should "get a life" and "shut up"

0108 tells Laura Ingraham that he wrote the book before becoming RNC chair (2009.0130) even though it repeatedly discusses events of late 2009 and refers to him as RNC chair

0104 caps praise of the Republican Party platform with the phrase "honest injun"

0110 says Harry Reid should resign for using the word "Negro"

0203 asked to justify characterizing a mandate to buy private health insurance as "socialism," tells a Harvard audience that the label fits because "the government looks to take over the means of production"

0127 files suit in D.C. District Court to demand, yes, a copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate

0204 in a speech to the for-profit "National Tea Party Convention," calls for a return to Jim Crow voting restrictions

0207 repeatedly refers to Ronald Reagan as "Harry Reid"

0207 appears in a Super Bowl ad directing viewers to an anti-abortion video on the website of fundamentalist organization Focus on the Family

0117 advances to runoff for the Ukrainian presidency

0203 protests an amendment to Ukrainian election law allowing her monitors to be barred from watching the vote count

0214 declared to have lost the election to Viktor Yanukovych, 48.9 to 45.4

0309 invites the press to cover a campaign event, then refuses to answer questions and has the reporters removed by security

0310 caught on tape stage-managing what is purportedly a town hall meeting: e.g., "lots of cheering would be good"

0304 withdraws his bill, passed by the legislature, that would have charged women with murder if they behaved "recklessly" and thereby suffered a miscarriage

0213 says he no longer supports Sarah Palin because she supports the re-election of John McCain, for whom he campaigned in 2008

0219 quoted in Department of Justice report arguing that the president can legally order a civilian village to be massacred

0222 pleads guilty in a civilian court to plotting to bomb New York subways; cooperates with interrogators without being tortured

0213 Operation Moshtarak begins with an assault on Taliban forces in Marja map

0103 EWR (Newark, NJ) is shut down for several hours after a guy sneaks past a distracted guard to kiss his girlfriend

0105 MSP (Minneapolis, MN) is shut down for over an hour after a bomb-sniffing dog reacts to a bag that turns out to belong to the airport

0105 BFL (Bakersfield, CA) is shut down for several hours after a passenger's bottles of honey are mistaken for an explosive, hospitalizing two highly suggestible TSA agents

0116 JFK (Queens, NY) is shut down for several hours after a Haitian evacuee walks through the wrong door looking for a cab

0227 struck by 8.8 earthquake, 500 times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti (0112)

0110 discovered by an AP investigation to be using cadmium as a substitute for lead in children's jewelry despite it being even more toxic

0112 identified by Google as the source of a massive, coordinated cyber attack aimed at human rights activists

0104 the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building at 0.51 miles, opens and is immediately renamed after a neighboring emir who propped up Dubai's collapsing economy in 2009

0206 electrical problems at the Burj Dubai Khalifa strand 15 in an elevator and 60 on the observation deck

0207 Burj closes

0225 shark tank at the Dubai Mall cracks, sending patrons fleeing

0201 Finance Ministry reports that previous administrations' violation of EU deficit rules was hidden by Goldman Sachs using derivatives

0112 reduced to rubble (photo, photo) by 7.0 earthquake which kills an estimated 230,000

0129 authorities arrest ten Baptist missionaries from the U.S. for attempting to smuggle 33 children into the Dominican Republic

0203 launches rocket containing a mouse, two turtles, and a can of worms into space

0202 Barack Obama tells high school students that "you don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college," prompting hysterical outrage from Nevada politicians who apparently consider that a marvelous idea

0207 football team wins Super Bowl

0224 police officer Michael Lohman pleads guilty to helping to cover up a police massacre of six unarmed Katrina victims on Danziger Bridge (2005.0904)

0218 military coup removes president Tandja Mamadou, who had overstayed his term and begun ruling by decree

0212 Winter Olympics begin; Georgian luger dies on the practice track; opening ceremony cauldron malfunctions

0301 cleared of all wrongdoing in the James O'Keefe fake pimp scandal, as O'Keefe had doctored the videos that purported to show criminal activity

0310 congressional cutoff of funding is ruled unconstitutional in federal court

0204 raises premiums 39%

0208 explanation demanded by health secretary Kathleen Sebelius and CA insurance commissioner Steve Poizner

0209 congressional investigation launched; Barack Obama calls the rate hike "a preview of coming attractions" if health care reform isn't passed

0213 delays rate increases

0215 scolded by Fox Business for giving health reform advocates a new rallying point

0127 unveils the "iPad," a device whose name has been stolen from Fujitsu much as Apple's own name was stolen from the Beatles; it is basically a large iPhone (whose name was stolen from Linksys)

0129 at a televised meeting with House Republicans, Barack Obama notes that "some of you have been at the ribbon-cuttings" for projects they opposed

0205 the White House releases a report detailing, just for starters, 29 instances of Republicans claiming credit for stimulus projects they voted against

0224 eight Republican senators, after trying and failing to kill the latest jobs bill on a cloture vote, vote yes on the bill itself in order to claim credit

0110 Republicans take to the airwaves to call for Harry Reid's resignation, arguing that if former majority leader Trent Lott had to step down for endorsing a segregationist presidential candidate, then surely the current majority leader should have to step down for suggesting that, given the state of American society even in 2008, light skin and a standard dialect might be helpful to the black presidential candidate he supported

0116 admits that its picture of an aged Osama bin Laden was created by crudely combining a picture of Osama with one of Spanish politican Gaspar Llamazares found on Google Images

0111 hires Sarah Palin

0129 bails early on Barack Obama's televised meeting with House Republicans, so apparently it was going pretty well for the president

0210 sticks a copy of An Inconvenient Truth in a snowbank to illustrate that the arrival of a blizzard disproves global warming

0222 refers to J.D. Hayworth as a "former Arizona congresswoman"

0201 revealed by Greek Finance Ministry to have hidden previous administrations' violation of EU deficit rules using derivatives

0210 spams a British poll asking about a 0.05% tax on derivatives trading with thousands of fake No votes

0112 stops censoring Chinese search results in response to what it describes as a massive, coordinated cyber attack launched from China and aimed at human rights activists

0209 unveils Google Buzz, an attempt to integrate social media with its email service, Gmail

0210 lambasted in the media upon the discovery that Google Buzz reveals a list of everyone a user emails to everyone that user emails

0211 belatedly adds an opt-out to Google Buzz

0224 discontinued after eighteen years of symbolizing grotesque excess

0211 sued for using the webcam in a student's school-issued laptop to secretly take photos of him in his home

0219 claims it has disabled the tracking software that allowed it to photograph high school students undressing in their bedrooms

0110 announces that Jay Leno will be moved to his previous timeslot of 11:35 p.m., displacing The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

0122 pays O'Brien $45 million to leave after he rejects the move

0117 a man at a Scott Brown rally loudly proposes sodomizing Martha Coakley with a curling iron

0202 a Research 2000 poll (0120-0131, N=2003, MOE=±2%) reveals: • only 21% of Republicans say Barack Obama is not a socialist • only 24% say ACORN did not steal the 2008 election • only 32% say Obama should not be impeached • only 36% say Obama is not a racist who hates white people • only 42% say Obama was born in the United States • only 43% say Obama does not "want the terrorists to win" • 53% say Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama to be president • 67% say Jesus is the only route to heaven

0218 characterized by a Republican National Committee fundraising presentation as motivated by fear and ego, and likely to respond to a campaign based on hate and ridicule of Democrats

0121 rules 5-4 in Citizens United v. FEC that corporations can pour unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns

0224 kills Sea World trainer Dawn Brancheau after she brushes his face with her ponytail

0121 already having issued a recall due to floor mats trapping gas pedals, issues a second one due to gas pedals getting stuck mechanically, bringing the number of recalled vehicles to 9m

0203 U.S. transportation secretary Ray LaHood tells Congress that "if anybody owns one of these vehicles, stop driving it"

0208 announces a third recall to reprogram hybrid braking software

0210 governors of four states with Toyota plants write Congress a letter complaining of a conflict of interest in its investigations of Toyota since the U.S. Treasury owns competitor General Motors

0224 CEO Akio Toyoda apologizes at a congressional hearing

0118 revealed by an ABC News investigation to have stamped references to Bible verses onto the rifle scopes it supplies to U.S., Iraqi, and Afghan troops photo