SARAH PALIN VS. PETA: Palin wins ... big.

GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE to leave Fox, explore a run for president.

I think I could vote for him. Especially if he chooses Sarah Palin to be his vice-president.

THE LIES ARE GETTING OBVIOUS: Why Democrat attacks on Republicans are beginning to misfire.

JEFF JACOBY: The politician, the coach, and the Founding Father.

NASA'S DAWN SPACECRAFT has begun approaching Ceres ahead of a historic March arrival at the mysterious dwarf planet.

Dawn has officially entered the Ceres approach phase, after recently emerging from behind the sun relative to Earth and thus coming back into reliable communication range. The probe is now about 400,000 miles from Ceres and is cruising toward the 590-mile-wide object at 450 mph , NASA officials said.

Dawn should enter orbit around Ceres — the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — on March 6, 2015. When that happens, the spacecraft will become the first ever to orbit two different unexplored solar system bodies. (Dawn circled the protoplanet Vesta, the asteroid belt's second-largest object, from July 2011 through September 2012.)

Click through and enjoy the video on ion propulsion.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Obama closes 2014 with higher poll numbers. Oddly enough, and surprising to me, that's true. Here are his Rasmussen Approval Index numbers:

January 3, 2014: -18, approve, 47%, disapprove, 51%.
December 31, 2014: -14, approve, 49%, disapprove, 49%.

But voter turnout is a different story.

YOU TOO can print your own 'NASA wrench'.

JEB BUSH and his problem with Common Core. As I've repeatedly said before, I have no problem with a 'common core' as a minimal list of recommended knowledge for the average American to be a responsible voting citizen.

Beyond that, the state and federal governments should stay the hell out of education. And that includes testing.

WILL NORTH DAKOTA pass the 'Hinder Heidi' act? Maybe, maybe not. But Massachusetts did, then caught the 'moron flu' and elected Elizabeth Warren to replace the previously-elected Scott Brown.

ANN COULTER: When the shoe doesn't fit, liberals want to make everyone [else] wear it.

NO MORE SPACEFARING: We might make aliens sick.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama saved by peak cheap oil.

OBAMACARE: Even more of a scam than you thought. No, it's exactly the "you're too dumb to take of your own lives" control-freaking progressive pitch I always knew it to be.

HEH: Galt city blues.

IT'S TIME TO ABOLISH TENURE: 'Conflict Resolution Professor' has a Second Amendment temper tantrum. One would think that college campuses would be places where rational thinking and reasoned debate could take place. One would be wrong.

More here, (if you can stand it).

IN 2015: Five things to remember about climate science. Trust facts, not narrative.

MILWAUKEE SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE on Al Sharpton ("a vulgar human being") and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

As one commenter noted, "He is a credit to law enforcement across America."

REMEMBER THAT SURGE of illegal immigrants from Obama's 'executive amnesty' last summer? Well, they're still here.

Did you seriously expect anything different?

TEEN HEROS chase kidnapping suspect on bikes, save 5-year-old girl. But the boys are black, and the girl is white, so there's no [national] story there.

IT'S A PITY WE DIDN'T HAVE A 'TWITTER BOMB' WAITING FOR HIM: ISIS fighter accidentally reveals his location in tweets.