The Daily Beast | It’s the bogus statistic that won’t die—and president deployed it during the State of the Union—but women do not make 77 cents to every dollar a man earns.

Prison Planet.com | Katy Perry and Missy Elliot’s sexually charged performance upset many viewers.

Polygon | A fourth-grader in west Texas has been suspended, his father says, because he pretended to have a ring like the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings.

Ron Paul | Last September President Obama cited his drone program in Yemen as a successful model of US anti-terrorism strategy.

Anthony Gucciardi | Many pharma drugs have only one clinical trial.

Gateway Pundit | The worst Super Bowl ad this year goes to T-Mobile for its sexist “Sorry, it’s a boy,” line.

Michael Snyder | Did you know that the rate of homeownership in the United States has fallen to a 20 year low?

RT | Islamic State militants have beheaded captive Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, after Tokyo’s negotiations with IS reached a “deadlock.”

Simon Black | It doesn’t’ take a rocket scientists to figure out what a bankrupt government will do—just like any thief, they’ll go after easy targets first.

PINAC | Fearing for his life, a New York cop pulled a gun on a group of teens having a snowball fight.

RT | The New York Police Department has backtracked.

Filming Cops | A left-behind family of a man killed by cops has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against San Bernardino County for excessive force.

Sputnik | According to the UN agency 1,375 Iraqis were killed and another 2,240 wounded in January in acts of terrorism and violence.

Police State USA | “A false sense of greater security at the cost of taking a gigantic step toward making America a police state.”