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Update - photos added. About that award. A promised "Entrepreneur of the Year" award to The Lodge, a popular Dallas strip club has been taken away. According to Fox News, Newt Gingrich's conservative group gave -- and then actually took it back -- a business award to a popular topless club in Texas. More here from My Fox DC.

Oops! Newt Gingrich Strip Club Award Stripped

More politics..Will California become America's first failed state? "California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years," writes Paul Harris of the Observer. Will it fail?


Obama date night...Barack and Michelle Obama are, among other things, husband and wife. And tonight, they celebrated their 17th anniversary, their first in the White House, reports Swamp politics.

They have pictures here of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama leave the Blueduck Tavern restaurant after having dinner in Washington on their 17th anniversary.

*Update - Photos added here at CBS 11 as they go inside the club to get the real story. Or at last some pictures of girls in lingerie or a thong bikini bottom.