Ed Martin, a 2010 Republican candidate for Congress in Missouri, has announced he is running for the U.S. Senate in 2012. The Associated Press reports:

The election in "2012 will be about a very simple question — that is what should the size and scope and cost of the fed government be?" Martin told The Associated Press. "Sen. McCaskill decided along with President Obama that bigger and stronger and more costly is better."

Jon Huntsman resigns, likely to run for president.

A district court judge in Virginia ruled in December that the individual mandate in the national health care law is unconstitutional.

Chick-fil-A, the Atlanta-based fast food chain that "didn't invent the chicken, just the chicken sandwich," maintains a famously conservative and Christian corporate culture. It even keeps stores closed on Sunday. According to the New York Times, some gay groups are crying fowl (apologies) over the company's alliance with conservative pro-family non-profits:

The 2011 National Physicians Survey, conducted by Thomson Reuters/HCPlexus and polling almost 3,000 American doctors, shows that while Obamacare would raise spending, premiums, overall U.S. health costs, and debt, it wouldn't raise the quality of American health care.

On the heels of a Kaiser Health survey showing that Obamacare is now less popular than at any time since its passage, a Rasmussen survey of likely voters released today shows that Americans now favor repeal by a margin of 20 points: 58 to 38 percent.

Mike Huckabee expressed solidarity with Israel while attending a groundbreaking ceremony in East Jerusalem: 

This is the 3 a.m. phone call. Will President Obama rise to the occasion?

Max Boot wonders whether President Barack Obama is doing the right thing by taking a cautious approach to Egypt. "Problem is," Boot writes, "taking no stand isn’t an option for the United States in this situation." Boot goes on to praise the Working Group on Egypt's approach:

Matt Continetti on James Poulos's show: 

A scathing piece in Politico by two Democratic pollsters says that Obamacare's mode of passage causes it to bear an "anti-democratic stain," that it has spawned a "political catastrophe" for the Democratic Party, and that the claim that the repeal bill's passage is merely symbolic "reflects the political class’s inability to understand the will and the attitudes of the American people."