Christie's tea-party problem  —  The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide reelection as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Express out to Iowa, surveying its various newspapers, blogs and such to see how he might do in the GOP caucuses …

Assessing the Healthcare Rollout … When OZY sat down with President Clinton, one of the things we were most interested to hear were his impressions of the recent national health care rollout.  Here's what he had to tell us.  —  1. The country is better off with the Affordable Care Act than without it.

Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS Sacramento/AP) — Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross of California has agreed to a two-month extension of about 104,000 individual policies after failing to give the required 90 …

Obama Lunches With US Service Members at Irish Pub  —  President Barack Obama made an unannounced trip out for lunch with members of the military.  —  The president and Vice President Joe Biden dined with active duty service members from each of the five military branches at Capitol Hill restaurant Molly Malone's on Tuesday.

Cobb GOP chairman concerned about (those) people coming to Braves' games  —  I just got back from Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed's press conference on the Braves' move to a transportation-challenged site in Cobb County, and will have a lot more to say on that later.  But I can't let this pass without notice:

Congressional Approval Sinks to Record Low  —  Current approval at 9%; 2013 average now 14%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' approval of the way Congress is handling its job has dropped to 9%, the lowest in Gallup's 39-year history of asking the question.  The previous low point was 10%, registered twice in 2012.

White House technology chief to testify at hearing  —  (CNN) - The top White House technology officer will appear before the Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, despite the Obama administration's insistence that he was too busy helping to repair the flawed Obamacare website

Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station  —  A cyber-security expert says several ostensibly secure facilities became victims of the virus that struck Iran's nuclear program  —  A Russian nuclear power plant was reportedly “badly infected” by the rogue Stuxnet virus …

Projected Typhoon Haiyan death toll falls, but tensions rise amid aid bottlenecks  —  Typhoon Haiyan  —  Cebu, Philippines (CNN) — While still unimaginably devastating, Typhoon Haiyan may not turn out to be as deadly as initially thought, the president of the Philippines told CNN's Christiane Amanpour Tuesday.

“Don't Get Screwed By Obamacare, Find A Sugar Daddy!”  Says Dating Website  —  Don't get screwed, by the government.  —  Seekingarrangement.com is a site that connects young females and older males for a “sugar daddy arrangement.”  —  seekingarrangement.com

Memo warned of “limitless” security risks for HealthCare.gov  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON — CBS News has learned that the project manager in charge of building the federal health care website was apparently kept in the dark about serious failures in the website's security.

“60 Minutes” and the Benghazi Scandal Trap  —  “I didn't even have to go into the room to see who it was,” a man calling himself Morgan Jones told Lara Logan, of “60 Minutes,” on October 27th, remembering how he had glimpsed a body through the glass in a door.

Dem poll: Kay Hagan lead vanishes  —  Incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is near the top of national Republicans' target list for 2014 — and a new poll shows her lead over her potential GOP challengers has all but evaporated.  —  Against state House Speaker Thom Tillis, Hagan leads by only 2 points …

The Truth about Navigators  —  James O'Keefe, the guerrilla videographer who helped bring down ACORN (the “community organizing” group that Barack Obama worked for as a lawyer and trainer) and got NPR's president fired, is back.  —  This time, his undercover investigators focused on Obamacare's …

Why Obama Won't Bounce Back  —  History shows presidents who aren't running for reelection don't recover from drops in their approval rating.  —  President Obama's approval rating is hovering around 40 percent, which could make him a drag on Democrats running in next year's midterm elections.

Tallest building ruling: Willis Tower loses to One World Trade Center  —  One World Trade Center will be the nation's tallest building when it is completed next year.  —  One World Trade Center will be the nation's tallest building when it opens next year, a Chicago-based tall buildings …

Liberals' investment drives Tesla's survival  —  These are trying times for Tesla Motors.  Its third-quarter sales and revenue disappointed the markets, causing a sell-off in its high-flying stock.  Then a Tesla Model S burst into flames after a collision, the third time that's happened.

Dianne Feinstein joins push to keep health plans  —  It's not just red-state Democrats who want to take aggressive steps to mend controversial provisions in Obamacare.  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she will co-sponsor a bill by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) …

The rise of paid friends: How wealthy New Yorkers are socializing with hired staff over ‘real’ companions - because they're easier ‘to control’  —  Rappers have long had their entourages, and lonely stay-at-home mothers have similarly long had the tendency to enlist luxury department store salespeople as makeshift best friends.

Wisconsin Supreme Court considers stay in Act 10 case  —  By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison — Supreme Court justices raised the prospect Monday of quickly blocking a Dane County judge's decision that found unconstitutional Gov. Scott Walker's limits on collective bargaining for public workers.