Poll: Obama disapproval rating on economy at record high  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto  —  President Obama's ratings on the the most important issue for his re-election — the economy …

Cain: God Convinced Him to Run for President  —  Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain gestures during a speech at the Values Voter Summit in October  —  ATLANTA, Ga. - Herman Cain, whose campaign could use some redemption in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal …

Is this the sexiest political ad campaign ever?  Putin's model army strikes again with raunchy video to get Russians voting  —  They've washed cars in skimpy outfits and torn their clothes off - all to promote the hardman of Russian politics, Vladimir Putin.

An Elegy for Berlusconi, the Man Who Ruined Italy (Again)  —  The Economist has a great elegy for my favorite now deposed leader, Silvio Berlusconi.  If you gave me a list at the beginning of the year of Hosni Mubarak, Moammar Gadhafi and Berlusconi, I would have said that Berlusconi …

Lessons From the Battle of BlogCon 2011: The Occupiers Deserve Derision  —  The weirdos, losers and mutations who make up the Occupy movement showed the world their glass jaw when their Denver branch descended upon the FreedomWorks BlogCon 2011 new media convention on Friday.

Denver police forcing Occupy Denver to move their property in Civic Center  —  Denver police forced stubborn protestors out of Civic Center park early this evening, using pepper spray and tearing down illegally pitched tents.  —  About half of the protesters had started to leave Lincoln Park …

Renewable Energy: Bubble, Scam, or Both?  —  The lead story in today's New York Times is a devastating look at solar and wind power subsidies.  Too bad it appears on a Saturday when fewer people will read it (which may not be a coincidence).  The print hed and sub-hed tell it better than the online version …

Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal  —  A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist.  —  The U.S. searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, including smallpox, after the 2003 invasion.

Obama, leaders set framework for Asia-Pacific trade agreement  —  President Obama and representatives of eight other nations agreed to a framework on Saturday for a free trade agreement in the Pacific Rim region, the White House announced.  —  “We just had an excellent meeting …

Herman Cain Wouldn't Be Romney's VP, But He Would Like To Be Secretary Of Defense  —  In the event that the American voters aren't sold on the presidential qualities honed by Herman Cain's experience as CEO of Godfather's Pizza, President of the National Restaurant Association or decade spent …