Cain upsets Perry at Florida straw poll  —  Businessman Herman Cain scored a major upset Saturday, winning the Florida straw poll and creating a new set of problems for Texas Gov. Rick Perry.  —  The final tally: Cain carried 37% of the vote, Perry 15% and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 14%.

The Phony Solyndra Scandal  —  If Brian Harrison and W. G. Stover, the two Solyndra executives who took the Fifth Amendment at a Congressional hearing on Friday, ever spend a day in jail, I'll stand on my head in Times Square.  —  It's not going to happen, for one simple reason: neither they …

The Fraying of a Nation's Decency  —  CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Amazon.com, the books-to-diapers-to-machetes Internet superstore, is a perfect snapshot of the American Dream, circa 2011.  —  It grows by the hour, fueled by a relentless optimism that has made America America.  First it sold books.

Multi-trillion grand plan to save the eurozone is being prepared  —  European officials are working on a grand plan to restore confidence in the single currency area that would involve a massive bank recapitalisation, giving the bail-out fund several trillion euros of firepower, and a possible Greek default.

Obama plays a round of golf with Clinton  —  President Obama headed to Andrews Air Force Base on Saturday for a round of golf with one of the few people who might have some idea of the difficulties the president has been facing: Former President Bill Clinton.

The World Will Be More Crowded — With Old People  —  Actually, the children aren't our future.  —  Demography is not destiny, as is sometimes claimed.  The human race could be wiped out by a plague or an asteroid, or transformed by some new technology.  But no matter what …

McCotter: ‘Democratic Party not progressive’  —  Mackinac Island— Two days after the onetime White House hopeful dropped his presidential run, U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told a breakfast crowd House Republicans will not back away from reforming entitlement programs, like Medicare and Social Security.

Father upset over homework promoting polygamy, Islam  —  COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A father's complaint that his daughter's homework promotes the Muslim faith could lead to a lesson change in Cobb County.  —  Channel 2's Tom Regan talked to the father who showed him where his daughter's homework …

WisPolitics: Guv's spokesman, two others granted immunity in ongoing John Doe probe  —  Gov. Scott Walker's spokesman is one of three witnesses who have been granted immunity in an ongoing John Doe investigation that includes allegations of campaign law violations, according to records obtained by WisPolitics.com .

Poll finds Obama approval at historic low  —  President Barack Obama's approval ratings have fallen to a new low, with only 36 percent of Americans saying that they approve of the way he is handling his job overall, according to a new poll from the Economist/YouGov.