* Clarence Thomas doesn’t want the EPA to act on global warming, cause he likes it hot. [WP, NYT, LAT, USAT]
* Antonin Scalia doesn’t want to address the legality of holding detainees at Guantánamo, cause he hears cries of innocent men in his dreams at night, and likes it. [WP, NYT]
* No one hates America more than Harry Reid. [WP]
* Mitt Romney is an “aggressive fundraiser,” John McCain has “a host of shortcomings.” [WP, WSJ]
* Even intelligence reports in Italy are luxuriously handcrafted, accurate. [WP]
* NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb could end up fired — into space on the back of a photon torpedo. [WP, NYT]

* Barack Obama fires up an exploratory committee, thus ending the beginning, beginning the end, or maybe, just maybe, beginning the beginning. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* Democratic Presidential primary to be full of historic firsts, with an African-American and a woman candidate as front runners. [WP]
* Republican Presidential primary to be same as usual, with loudmouth racists up and down the ticket. [WP]
* SCOTUS says “Fuck it, we’ll do it later” to eminent domain case. [NYT]
* Lobbyists banging members of Congress have loophole in new reform package. [WP]
* Scooter Libby deserves your pity, as he might never find a jury in this jaded city. [WP, NYT]
* The Washington Post gives its young political readers a glimpse of the ghost of campaigns yet to come. [WP]