Police are investigating the murder of the Washington Redskins’ Sean Taylor, who died in a Miami Hospital over the night after being shot early Monday morning. Since Taylor had reported a previous break-in to his home eight days prior to the shooting — and Taylor’s fiancee found the house phone line cut when she tried to call the police Monday morning — something more than circumstance appears to be at play. As Redskins vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato noted today, “”This was a deliberate attack.” MORE »

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor has died a day after he was shot in his Miami home, according to his attorney. [CNN]

Mike Huckabee appeared with champion endorser and lady-beater extraordinaire Ric Flair this weekend at the South Carolina-Clemson football game, where they drank, ate, maybe beat up some chicks. Or maybe espoused Huckabee’s demented plan to kill income taxes and make the sales tax monstrously regressive. Who knows! Whatever the case, Ric Flair was sure to add his two cents: “Just remember that the first part of ‘Whooo, pig, sooie!’ is ‘Whooo!’” Yeah… hooray for… Team A? [AP/Yahoo]

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was shot outside his Miami home around 2:00 a.m. this morning, and remains in a local hospital. Police are still trying to figure it out. [Fox5]

Did you know the whole Iran-White House thing is a big scam because both Bush and Ahmadinejad answer to the same boss, Satan? Well it could be true, as proven by this Conspiracy Planet photo comparison showing both unloved presidents doing the HAIL SATAN gesture. We’ve often posted pictures of Bush Junior worshiping his father in hell, but this is the first time we’ve seen Iranian McBeardy guy rocking the Heavy Metal Hands — and check him out, all double-barreled and whatnot. MORE »

When we saw a McCain fundraiser email that said it was from Roger Staubach we were totally bewildered and excited. Not until we loaded the attached images did we realize that it was the former Cowboy and not Robert Steinbuch. [CBS]

SCANDAL ALERT: Condi Rice co-owns a house with a Stanford liberal documentary director who used to make liberal documentaries with Bill Moyers! What a hypocrite. Rice, of course, works for an administration that is totally conservative and always doing things against liberals — and now we find out that she shares a home with a liberal?

According to Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler’s book about Condi — which we sort of flipped through, but obviously not closely enough — Rice owns a house with liberal filmmaker Randy Bean. Oh, and there’s a third co-owner, too: “Coit Blacker, a Stanford professor who is openly gay.” Oh, and Randy Bean’s a woman. MORE »

* Heard on the Hill: Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) said “fuck” on the radio last month… Stephanie Tubbs Jones held a “manicures and muffins” party for donors. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: A retired White House pastry chef wrote a memoir! Did you know: the Secret Service used to delease hundreds of trout into the river at Camp David just to keep Jimmy Carter from killing himself. Nancy Reagan was an incredible bitch. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Justin Timberlake: too boring to party in DC… Politicians be throwing football parties. [Examiner]
* Washington Whispers: Colbert guests get better schwag than O’Reilley guests… Scooter Libby’s and Karl Rove’s publicists just merged to form a one-stop PR house for incompetent criminals… Hillary Clinton is funny. [USN&WR]
* Shenanigans: Michael Steele drives around in a Lexus with a “Steele for Senate” sticker. [Politico]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, hanging out with the foreign secretary of Russia, was asked who she liked in Sunday’s Super Bowl. MORE »

Oh, John Kerry. We’re just going to reprint your entire blast email, because a summary could not do justice to its obnoxious inanity. MORE »

It was just another pointless roll-call vote to commemorate some national trivia — in this case, “commending the University of Florida Gators for their victory in the 2006 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and for winning the national college football championship.” MORE »