Bernie impressive in Iowa, “displaying an effective speech style and natural interactions with the event attendees.This was a better Bernie than I’ve seen before.” [Iowa Starting Line].

Ethics deal between the Clintons and the 2008 Obama transition team “imposed no vetting on donations to the Clinton Foundation by individuals or private companies in the U.S. or abroad” [Politico].

Quinnipiac poll: Walker leads Iowa poll at 25% of likely Republican caucus participants, taking “self-identified ‘very conservative’ and ‘tea party” voters.” Rand Paul second with 13%, then 11% each for Carson and Huckabee and 10 percent for Bush. No other candidate is above 5 percent and 9 percent are undecided” [Quad City Times].

Cuomo wants ethics reform bill to apply only to the legislature, not the governor’s office [Albany Project]

the race for President in Texas?

The incredible decline of American unions, in one animated map Washington Post

Solar becoming the cheapest energy source

Re-branding Hillary

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-making-of-hillary-50-marketing-wizards-help-reimagine-clinton-brand/2015/02/21/bfb01120-b919-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html?hpid=z1

ISIS threatened to invade Rome and the Italians responded with funny travel tips