• The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about why he won’t be mocking the big Palin fight in Anchorage
• Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about the loss of proper Beltway analysis in the media
• Voice Deity Jim Ward joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for Maximum Mookage Mondays
• After the beheading of another Western captive by ISIS, an international conference is convening today in Paris to talk about how to tackle the threat posed by the Islamic extremist group. The conference is being hosted by French President Francois Hollande and his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Masum.
• The eyes of the political world turned to Iowa on Sunday as Hillary Clinton took the stage at the 37th-and-final Harkin Steak Fry, a Democratic fundraiser spearheaded by longtime Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. Clinton began her speech with an ebullient, “I’m baaaack!”
• Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) added his voice to the growing debate surrounding NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s fate, saying that Goodell “should go” if he lied about the NFL not having seen the violent video of former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice knocking his then fiancé unconscious.
