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Tim LaHaye, the co-author of the best-selling Christian book series “Left Behind,” and his wife, Beverly, plan to endorse Newt Gingrich’s bid for president, The Daily Caller has learned from three sources.

While President Barack Obama has been touting the importance of “insourcing” jobs into the United States (as opposed to outsourcing jobs overseas), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reminded America on Thursday that Obama recently rejected one of the most prominent and beneficial insourced opportunities: the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sand oil through middle America to refineries on the Gulf Coast and create at least 20,000 jobs. – CNSNews.com

Fuel companies are about to be fined $6.8 million for failure to use a biofuel that does not exist. – Human Events

Solyndra employees could receive up to $50,000 bonuses for blowing half a billion in taxpayer money with the help of the Obama administration. – Washington Times

[DHS] national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.” – Reuters

Under Romney’s emerald-green sweater needs to be a warrior’s spirit and — dare we say — a taste for blood. Romney has to go after Mr. Obama like a pit bull and, once he clamps down on Mr. Obama’s boney wrist or ankle, not let go. – American Thinker

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez joked about having “a big atomic bomb” and mocked US disapproval during a meeting between the two allies in Caracas. – The Telegraph

Wacky bill would allow boys to be on girls sports teams and vice versa. Could we just let morally and fiscally bankrupt California secede? –

Obama’s appointment of Daley — a former bank executive and Commerce secretary — was widely interpreted as an olive branch to the business community, which had been vocal about its unhappiness with the administration and its legislative agenda. – The Hill

Somebody at the EPA decided, incorrectly, that the Sacketts’ private property was actually a wetland, so only the federal agency could decide what, if anything, would ever be done on the lot. The bureaucrats then ordered the Sacketts to remove foundation work that had been completed, plus much more. – Washington Examiner