Debate Swings Door Open for Perry, Closed for Palin  —  Most people have better things to do than to watch a presidential debate eight months in advance of the Iowa caucuses.  So when considering a debate like the one that took place among Republican candidates in New Hampshire tonight, it's important to be mindful of the following:

‘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.

Obama: My family would be fine with just 1 term  —  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says his wife and daughters aren't “invested” in him being president and would have been fine had he decided against running for re-election.  But he says they believe in what he's doing for the country.

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 …

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 5-4 Vote, Supreme Court Limits Securities Fraud Suits  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a mutual fund's investment adviser may not be sued for securities fraud over misstatements in fund prospectuses.  —  The 5-to-4 decision split along ideological lines.

CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL  —  Republican Debate  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the first Republican presidential debate in this first-in-the-nation primary state.

About Ron Klain  —  Ron Klain is a senior executive with a private investment firm in Washington.  From 2009 to 2011, he was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and a senior adviser to President Barack Obama on the Recovery Act, judicial selection, and other policy matters.

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: High noon for ethanol  —  Tuesday's Big Story: The Senate is slated to vote on Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) plan to eliminate a major ethanol industry tax break and the ethanol import tariff.  —  Ethanol backers are battling the amendment and seeking to pull support from Coburn.

GLAAD's Troup Coronado Helped Put Bush Judges On the Bench  —  The story of how GLAAD took AT&T money, then sent an AT&T-written form letter to the FCC on their behalf, just keeps getting more and more sordid.  Central to the saga appears to be former AT&T lobbyist Troup Coronado, who sits on the board of GLAAD.

Almost a month of Palin's emails missing from releases  —  Nearly a month of former Gov. Sarah Palin's emails are missing from the documents released to media organizations last week, a gap that raises questions about what other emails might also be missing from what's being nationally reported as her record as Alaska governor.

Can Heterosexuality Be Cured?  —  “Congressman Weiner departed this morning to seek professional treatment.”  —  Unlike homosexuality, heterosexuality is amenable to therapeutic remedies—or so Anthony Weiner and his fellow House Democrats would like us to believe.

Clarence Thomas takes hard line on defendants  —  WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago, when a senator asked then-appellate Judge Clarence Thomas why he wanted to be on the Supreme Court, Thomas said he often looked out his courthouse window at arriving prisoners and said to himself, “But for the grace of God, there go I.”

Bankruptcy Court: DOMA Unconstitutionally Limits Same-Sex Married Couples From Joint Bankruptcy Filing  —  Today, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, released an opinion finding Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional …

Politico's VandeHei: ‘Not Any Single Reporter At Any Media Organization Thinks Palin Should Be President’  —  People know that the MSM despises Sarah Palin.  Still, it was shocking to hear the beans so blithely spilled . . .  Jim Vandehei of Politico, on Morning Joe today:

Pundit Under Protest  —  I'll be writing a lot about the presidential election over the next 16 months, but at the outset I would just like to remark that I'm opining on this whole campaign under protest.  I'm registering a protest because for someone of my Hamiltonian/National Greatness perspective …

Report: Grand jury probing possible CIA war crimes in Iraq  —  A federal prosecutor has launched a secret grand jury to investigate possible CIA war crimes at the Abu Gharib prison in Iraq, Time magazine reported.  —  Federal prosecutor John Durham, who was first appointed to probe …