Morning News Roundup

• Seems that the Army is stretched to the limit due to the pace of troop deployments in Iraq, according to a Pentagon study (from the AP, via ABC News).
• As a corallary, another study shows that violence from insurgent attacks in Iraq during 2005 increased 30 percent (via Reuters).
  
• The WaPo is noting that Democrats have all but conceded the Supreme Court confirmation of Samuel Alito
• China's economy grew 9.9 percent last year to become the fourth largest economy in the world behind the US, Japan and Germany (via the NYTimes).
• Now, here's a creative way to protest corporations who hew to closely to the "radical homosexual agenda"--have your supporters buy up as much stock as you can and sell it all off on the same day in an attempt to sock it to the company with a lower stock price. That's what Pastor Ken Hutcherson is suggesting to implement against Microsoft (via the NYTimes), which supports the gay civil rights bill that will likely be coming to the Washington State Senate later this week.
• NASA confirms that 2005 was the warmest year in several thousand years (from Environmental News Network).
• And, oh yeah... the BushCo administration gets caught in another lie--this time about reimbursement of funds to states covering the Medicare drug plan cluster-f*** (via ThinkProgress).