Ty Hildenbrandt and Dan Rubenstein recap all the action from Week 9, including Notre Dame’s epic road win, Kansas State’s dominating effort, Alabama’s continued dominance and the Tire Fire that is Auburn football.

“Mitt Romney says the American Navy is smaller than it was in 1916. In a naive ship-counting sense, where big ships and small ships all carry the same weight, that might be true. But what really matters is relative strength: how powerful is the U.S. Navy compared to all the …

“Just ahead of the book’s release Oct. 30, evangelical author Rachel Held Evans announced that LifeWay Christian Resources had refused to stock her second work, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which describes her humorous year-long attempt to follow the Bible’s rules for women. LifeWay, which is operated by the Southern …

“Reuben Glaser, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee freshman, noticed that presidential candidate Mitt Romney lacked a defining characteristic. “Ford fell down, Biden is Uncle Joe, and Obama is cool,” he said. “Romney doesn’t really have anything.” So Glaser gave him something: a big head. Glaser has been digitally minimizing Romney’s facial …

“This week six scientists and one government official were sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter, for making “falsely reassuring” comments before the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. But was this fair? First, we have to understand limits of earthquake science. Ian Main, Professor of Seismology and Rock Physics at the …

“When Mitt Romney assailed Americans who he claimed don’t pay federal income taxes during his infamous 47 percent rant in May, one of the guests in the room for this intimate Boca Raton fundraiser was a convicted tax cheat who had gone to jail for failing to pay a quarter …

“The world’s largest oil companies — ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips — will begin to announce their third-quarter profits for 2012. In the first half of 2012, these companies — all ranked in the top 10 of Fortune 500 Global — earned over $60 billion. The oil industry reinvests …

It seems a lot of vitriol toward Obama is nonsensical, partisan and sometimes, appears to be based on racial prejudice. Would Obama received the same amount of hate if he weren’t black? What if he were a Republican? Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies) discuss …

“The Log Cabin Republicans announced Tuesday that they have endorsed Mitt Romney for president, a significant departure from 2008, when the group ran ads hitting Romney for his shift from moderation to severe conservativism and highlighted him as an example of what is wrong with the Republican Party. The organization, …

“Anthony Johnson was convicted in Hartford, Connecticut of slithering on floors of movie theaters and robbing people while they watched movies. Johnson reportedly spent his weekends of crawling across movie theater floors, stealing from purses and running up $30,000 bills on other people’s credit cards, reports greenwichtime.com. Johnson would then …