Obama: ‘I would resign’ in Weiner's situation  —  President talks scandal, debt ceiling in an exclusive interview with TODAY's Ann Curry  —  Below:  —  In an exclusive interview with TODAY's Ann Curry that will air on Tuesday's show, President Barack Obama said that if he were Democratic …

CNN's Crazy, No-Holds-Barred, Social-Media Debate  —  It's got more bells and whistles than a video game and could send the candidates into anaphylactic shock  —  Manchester, N.H. — By nature, I'm a debate skeptic.  They're hard to differentiate, and the last one is usually forgotten as soon as the next one rolls around.

Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words  —  WASHINGTON — In a decision last week in a patent case, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. puzzled out the meaning of a federal law by consulting the usual legal materials — and five dictionaries.  —  One of the words he looked up was “of.”

‘Paula Brooks,’ editor of ‘Lez Get Real,’ also a man  —  Just one day after the author behind a popular Syrian lesbian blog admitted to being a married, American man named Tom MacMaster, the editor of the lesbian news site Lez Get Real, with the tag­line “A Gay Girl's View on the World,” acknowledged that he is also a man.

Herman Cain: “Am I Black?”  —  GREENFIELD, N.H. — At the end of a short press scrum here, Herman Cain got a question he's always asked semi-nervously: So, uh, how's it going out there for a black Republican candidate?  His answer is that he's lived a while, he's seen racism …

WI Democrat Tells Female Constituent He Wants to “Smack Her Around” in Message (Audio)  —  Typical democrat.  —  A Wisconsin democrat running in a recall election left a message on a woman's answering machine.  The democrat said he ought to smack her around in a message he didn't know was being recorded.

Gov. Perry: Economic Crisis Is Part of God's Plan To Return Us To Biblical Principles  —  For the past week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has been roundly criticized by religious and LGBT groups alike for inviting other governors to join him at an anti-gay prayer event hosted by stridently bigoted American Family Association.

Obama fundraiser underwhelms  —  The empty seats at President Obama's fundraiser in Miami, Fl. were hard to miss.  —  MIAMI, Fla. — A low-dollar fundraiser here Monday felt like a throwback to the 2008 campaign.  —  There was the same old soundtrack - including “City of Blinding Lights” …

In Reversal, 3 Democratic Senators Will Back Gay Marriage  —  ALBANY — Three wavering Democratic lawmakers in the State Senate have agreed to support legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in New York, several people with knowledge of the negotiations said on Monday, marking a potential turning point for the long-debated measure.

US Is in Even Worse Shape Financially Than Greece: Gross  —  When adding in all of the money owed to cover future liabilities in entitlement programs the US is actually in worse financial shape than Greece and other debt-laden European countries, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC Monday.

Indiana Senate Candidate Mourdock's Campaign Assaults Citizen Journalist  —  This weekend we attended a Tea Party event in Kokomo, Indiana.  As we were interviewing Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock; his campaign manager, Chief Deputy & General Counsel for Indiana …

Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: ‘Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected’  —  President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met today in Durham, NC at Cree Inc., a company that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting.  One of the Council's recommendations to President Obama …

Chart Of The Day: For American Workers, No Economic Recovery  —  Workers tend to bear the brunt of the American economy's boom and bust cycles.  When recessions hit and unemployment rises, workers' share of the national income — the money people earn through wages and salaries …

McLean woman ‘involuntarily committed’ in alleged Red Line bomb threat  —  [This story was originally posted at 8:39 a.m. with updates at 12:15 p.m., 1:50 p.m. and 2:33 p.m. Stay with PostLocal.com as more information becomes available.]  —  A 51-year-old Mclean woman was “involuntarily committed” …

Sarah Palin's letter from God  —  Two items of note this morning on America's most interesting, reviled and adored politician who isn't a candidate for anything and probably won't be in 2012 — Sarah Palin.  —  Up first is Toby Harnden, a prolific author and correspondent for the Daily Telegraph of London.

EXCLUSIVE: Political Insiders Give Early Debate Nod to Romney, Bachmann  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney made the best impression among Republican political operatives, campaign consultants, and party strategists during the first half of the CNN GOP New Hampshire presidential debate according …

EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Claim Intelligence on Bin Laden, al-Qaeda Targets Withheld From Congress' 9/11 Probe  —  On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, just as he has done in years past, a top military intelligence analyst identified by the US government only as “Iron Man” will hunker down in front …

Scientific Consensus on Global Warming  —  Scientific societies and scientists have released statements and studies showing the growing consensus on climate change science.  A common objection to taking action to reduce our heat-trapping emissions has been uncertainty within the scientific community …

As the GOP Presidential Debate Begins...  ...we were reminded again today that Barack Obama is eminently beatable.  The 2012 election will be mostly a referendum on the success or failure of his administration's economic policies.  Every day, more voters are becoming convinced that the verdict is in, and Obama is a failure.