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There are ways we could increase pay for teachers, including legalizing weed and gambling.

A conservative political action committee called Turn Right has released a campaign ad that even the Republican they're supporting says is racist.  It bashes a California Democrat named Janice Hahn, and accuses her of helping gang members get out of jail, then paying them to be "gang intervention specialists."

U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner is just inches away from a full-blown...scandal. It came out over the weekend that a picture of the some guy's junk was uploaded on the front page of Weiner's website. Weiner claims the pic was inserted by a hacker, but was then forced to withdraw after admitting he wasn't completely sure that the picture wasn't him.

It has NOT been a good week for Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Straight out of the chute, Gingrich got ripped by fellow Republicans for criticizing a Medicare proposal from fellow GOP congressman Paul Ryan. Then, he goes to Iowa, where everybody has taken their cracks at him, including a gay activist who poured glitter on his head and said, "Feel the rainbow!"