Video: Perry implodes; Update: Campaign is over, says top fundraiser  —  Via Business Insider.  A few choice quotes.  Larry Sabato: … Rich Lowry: … Mona Charen: … He's down to 4.9 percent now on InTrade; before the debate he was at 9.3 percent.

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Is Fired  —  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Graham B. Spanier, one of the longest-serving and highest-paid university presidents in the nation, who has helped raise the academic profile of Penn State during his tenure, stepped down Wednesday night in the wake …

Rick Perry on His ‘Oops’: There's No ‘Perfect Candidate’  —  Texas Governor Rick Perry hit the airwaves this morning to try to recover from a performance that one presidential scholar deemed “the most devastating” of any primary debate.  —  “The bottom line is that we're going to get up every …

Ford.  Quayle.  Stockdale.  Now, Poor Rick Perry  —  In the long annals of presidential-campaign debating, there had until this evening been three famous-disaster moments:  —  1) 1976, Gerald Ford and Poland.  This one wasn't quite fair.  Ford was trying to make a reasonable point …

CNBC's “Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate” Live from Oakland University in Rochester, MI ...  BARTIROMO: And good evening, everyone.  I'm Maria Bartiromo.  —  HARWOOD: I'm John Hardwood.  —  And welcome to CNBC's Republican Presidential Debate.

Investigator: Herman Cain innocent of sexual advances  —  Private investigator TJ Ward said presidential hopeful Herman Cain was not lying at a news conference on Tuesday in Phoenix.  —  Cain denied making any sexual actions towards Sharon Bialek and vowed to take a polygraph test if necessary to prove his innocence.

The Financial Folly of Fairness  —  When I was a young and naive economics writer, I used to write about developing countries a fair amount.  Time and again they would make these bizarre and pointless moves, like suddenly and for no apparent reason defaulting on a bunch of debt.

Obama, Romney Tied In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds; Cain, Romney Duel For Gop Lead In All Three States  —  One year before the presidential election, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are running neck and neck in Florida …

Remains of war dead dumped in landfill  —  The Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of some dead troops' body parts by burning them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, a practice that officials have since abandoned in favor of burying the remains at sea.

Police arrest man at Occupy Portland camp for throwing Molotov cocktail into stairwell at World Trade Center  —  A 29-year-old man was arrested this morning inside the Occupy Portland encampment, police said, on suspicion of throwing a Molotov cocktail onto a staircase at the World Trade Center last night.

Google+ Is Dead  —  The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone.  —  Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt didn't post his first Google+ message until three months after it went live  —  AFP/Getty Images.

Reggie Love, Obama ‘body man,’ to leave White House by year's end  —  Reggie Love, a key member of the Obama entourage, is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year, people close to the administration said.  —  Love, 30, is a popular, gregarious figure in the White House.

Basic Rights Oregon will not put same-sex marriage on 2012 ballot  —  After a three-year campaign to build support for legalizing same-sex marriage, Oregon's largest gay rights group has decided against putting the issue up for a vote in 2012.  —  Feedback from an online survey of over 1,000 people …

Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban  —  Weary of plastic litter, Grand Canyon National Park officials were in the final stages of imposing a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon late last year when the nation's parks chief abruptly blocked the plan …

Cain chief of staff under fire  —  Conservative pundits and former Cain staffers are calling for the resignation of Herman Cain's chief of staff, who they say has damaged the GOP candidate's credibility.  —  The calls for Mark Block to resign come as Cain's campaign deals …