Red States get the deepest cuts under Obama . . . Between the 2009 and 2013 fiscal years, funding for a wide swath of discretionary grant programs, from Head Start preschool education to anti drug initiatives, fell by an average of 40 percent in Republican-leaning states like Texas and Mississippi. By contrast, funding to Democratic-leaning states such as California and politically competitive swing states like Ohio dropped by 25 percent. 

"I would suggest these numbers would tell us there is politicization going on," said John Hudak, an expert on federal spending at the centrist Brookings Institution. Reuters

Naw, this wouldn't be corruption, would it? No investigation needed.

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Obama wins on sanctions, but only gets two months . . . Ten Senate Democrats told President Barack Obama on Tuesday that they would not vote for an Iran sanctions bill until after late March, essentially giving Obama two months to reach a framework deal under which Iran agrees to give up its nuclear weapons program. As a result, it now appears unlikely that the Senate will be in any position to move a sanctions bill until late March. The Blaze

State Deptartment-funded group bankrolls anti-Bibi campaign . . . 
A U.S. State Department-funded group is financing an Israeli campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and has hired former Obama aides to help with its grassroots organizing efforts. Washington Free Beacon

Are U.S. taxpayers effectively making contributions to Netanyahu's political opposition?

Obama withdraws plan to gut college savings plans . . . A dramatic lobbying effort on Air Force One — led by key leaders in his own party — helped prod President Barack Obama to drop a much ballyhooed plan to tax college savings in an embarrassing retreat from a plan announced just a little more than a week ago. Politico

Michelle uncovered . . . First lady Michelle Obama faced backlash from Twitter users in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for not wearing a head covering during her brief visit there with the president. Washington Times

Good for her. Let them like it.

White House wants to combat deficit with more spending . . . No, it’s true. This is not one of my satire pieces. Because everything cool as long as you call it "investments." White House Dossier

Guest of honor Obama chews gum in India . . . It was “one of the most significant honors that India can bestow on any foreign leader,” the announcer for an Indian TV network declared: serving as “chief guest” at India’s Republic Day celebrations. But for President Obama, the recipient of that honor, it was all only so much chicken curry. White House Dossier

Obama's Syria mess . . . The "moderate" rebels aren’t getting the weapons they need and are defecting to the Islamists or al-Qaeda, dying, or just plain disappearing. It’s a circus, albeit one in which the ringmaster gets the performers killed. White House Dossier

Army denies it has decided to charge Bergdahl . . . Maj. Gen. Ronald F. Lewis, the Army's chief of public affairs, put out a statement Tuesday afternoon calling the reports, including a similar one by NBC News, "patently false." "To be clear there have been no actions or decisions on the Sgt. Bergdahl investigation," he said. Fox News

Jindal warned of Islamic "colonization," "Invasion" . . . "What’s not acceptable is people that want to come and conquer us. That’s not immigration, by the way, that’s colonization," he says. "If someone wants to come here and change our fundamental culture and our values. If they want to come here and they want to set up their own culture and values that’s not immigration, that’s really invasion — if you’re honest about it." Breitbart

No no-go zones in the United States, please.

Bush talks tough on immigration . . . "A great nation needs to control its border," Jeb Bush told the audience in San Francisco, "not just at the border, which is hugely important, but also the 40 percent of the people that have come here illegally with a legal visa and overstayed their bounds. We ought to be able to figure out where they are and politely ask them to leave." Washington Examiner

Money on Rubio . . . In an informal straw poll of some Koch brother conference donors, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida came out ahead of four other would-be GOP presidential candidates who had been invited. Politico

The importance of being Ernst . . . The just-elected Iowa senator aims to be a player in 2016. Politico

AG nominee Loretta Lynch to face a tough hearing . . . She is likely to face hours of grilling from the Senate Judiciary Committee on hot button issues including immigration, guns, civil rights, national security, and her relationship with congressional Republicans, who frequently clashed with Attorney General Eric Holder, an unapologetic liberal voice and one of Obama's closest allies. Reuters

Among the witnesses - former CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, victim of a possible government-prompted computer invasion.

Pravda on the Prairie . . . Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R), a potential 2016 presidential candidate, is walking back Monday’s report in the Indianapolis Star that he is launching a taxpayer-funded, state-run “news” site. Breitbart

Yes, conservatives have bad ideas too . . . 

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U.S. wanted to spy on cars at gun shows . . . The National Rifle Association is investigating reports that a leading federal agent proposed using license-plate readers to scan vehicles at gun shows as part of a gun-trafficking crackdown. Newsmax

Bob Dylan, conservative? . . . Lefty, folkie icon Bob Dylan was singing from the supply side playbook the other day during an interview with AARP magazine, touting a little trickle down economics for his fellow seniors. White House Dossier

Everyone starts to get the teachers' unions damage . . . For all of his faults, one pleasant surprise of President Obama's administration has been his display of independence from the teachers' unions that oppose anything that might create standards, competition, or accountability for the often deplorable quality of their members' work. Washington Examiner

States push 20-week abortion bills . . . While divided House Republicans abandoned plans to vote on a ban on abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy, the issue is thriving at the state level, with almost a third of all states having passed or considering similar laws. Washington Examiner

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