Your Daily Santorum starts with a second dive into the news from yesterday -- the good old days when your D.C. correspondent was just an apple-cheeked 25-year-old -- about Rick Santorum's hires in Iowa. Santorum picked up the services of Cody Brown, who managed the campaign of Ben Lange in an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley. Also working to defeat Braley was the American Future Fund, captained by Nick Ryan, also advising Santorum in Iowa. In fact, the efforts of AFF and the Lange campaign were so well-aligned that Braley accused them of illegally coordinating.

AFF, as detailed in this NYT story, is one of these newfangled 501c(4) groups that can spend bundles of money on political campaigns while not disclosing their donors, but they are not allowed to coordinate their activities with campaigns. AFF ponied up more than $1 million against Braley, while a political action committee of the same name donated to Lange and endorsed him. The Braley campaign cried foul, but Ryan insisted that the PAC and the 501c(4) were entirely different operations and despite the impressive message coordination between the Lange campaign and AFF, there were no behind the scenes discussions.

And now it appears Brown and Ryan are getting the band back together.

The Schedule: Set your DVRs, or your alarms, for 9 on Sunday morning as Santorum will be on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace. Then next week it's Iowa-D.C.-Pittsburgh-New Hampshire.