Romney's Strong Debate Performance Erases Obama's Lead  —  GOP Challenger Viewed as Candidate with New Ideas  —  OVERVIEW  —  Mitt Romney no longer trails Barack Obama in the Pew Research Center's presidential election polling.  By about three-to-one, voters say Romney did a better job …

Experts pan Romney foreign policy speech  —  Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech Monday was filled with tough talk and slams of President Barack Obama's leadership — but little of the clarity Romney has vowed to bring to the Oval Office.  —  Analysts reviewing what the Republican nominee …

Paul Ryan Gets Testy And Ends Interview  —  When asked about guns and taxes in an interview with ABC12 in Flint, Michigan.  Campaign: “Eventually you're going to see a local reporter embarrass himself.”  —  Source: youtube.com  —  Update: Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck tells BuzzFeed …

Reporter Lara Logan brings ominous news from Middle East  —  CBS correspondent Lara Logan covers the reaction in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down in February 2011.  CBS News photo  —  This was no ordinary rubber chicken affair.

UPDATES: Republican candidate Fuqua endorses death penalty for rebellious children  —  Remember former Republican legislator Charlie Fuqua, running again for legislature with financial support from the Arkansas Republican Party and U.S. Reps. Tim Griffin and Steve Womack, among others?

BOMBSHELL: OBAMA.COM OWNED BY BUNDLER IN SHANGHAI WITH BUSINESS TIES TO CHINESE GOVERNMENT  —  In an explosive report set to send shockwaves through official Washington, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released a 108-page GAI investigation into the threat of foreign …

The 15 Most Overrated White People … Kate Middleton , Christopher Columbus , Columbus Day , Race , Slideexpand , White People , Black Voices News  —  Today, our nation engages in one of its most bizarre cultural rituals: the celebration of Columbus Day as a national holiday.

Why I'm Voting for Mitt Romney  —  After the president's debate performance in Denver, this lifelong Democrat has made a difficult decision: he's given up on Barack Obama.  Even if his own wife doesn't approve.  —  When I told my wife Lisa that I was writing a column supporting Mitt Romney for president …

Princeton Economist: Obama Campaign Is Misrepresenting My Study on Romney's Tax Plan  —  Last night, the Obama campaign blasted out another email claiming that Mitt Romney's tax plan would either require raising taxes on the middle class or blowing a hole in the deficit.

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Republicans conflicted over Obama, Obamacare  —  (CNN) — Jill Thacker was dying for a cup of coffee when she recently ran into a 7-Eleven convenience store.  To her pleasant surprise, the coffee was free — as long as she would commit to drinking it in either a red Mitt Romney cup or a blue Barack Obama cup.

Colo. Governor: 'Lincoln Wasn't a Great Debater'  —  Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said Monday that Abraham Lincoln “wasn't a great debater” during a visit to the Obama campaign field office in Denver, Colo., according to Denver West Word reporter Sam Levin.  —  Lincoln famously participated …

Exclusive: Libya Cable Detailed Threats  —  In a dispatch sent the day he was killed, Ambassador Christopher Stevens described how the militias keeping the peace in Benghazi threatened to quit over a political feud.  Eli Lake reports.  —  Just two days before the 9/11 anniversary attack …

Is Obama overrated as a candidate?  —  In his closing remarks at the first debate in Denver last week, President Obama uttered the following sentence: “Four years ago, I said that I'm not a perfect man and I wouldn't be a perfect president.”  —  For anyone who has watched Obama campaign …

Madonna backs down from wearing Muslim bridal dress  —  Madonna has decided against wearing a Muslim bridal dress, a combination of a traditional Iraqi bridal veil and a US soldier's uniform, in her new music video after being convinced by her advisers to give the outfit a miss for her own safety.

Why Do the Sunday Shows Suck So Much?  —  In the American media landscape, there is no single forum more prestigious than the Sunday shows—particularly the three network programs, and to a slightly lesser extent “Fox News Sunday” and CNN's “State of the Union.”

Fatah: Palestinians have not abandoned armed struggle  —  Member of Fatah Central Committee Aloul says “no one has dropped armed resistance from his dictionary,” points out Fatah political program has reaffirmed “resistance is legitimate right against occupation.”