- Yes, the White House Is 'Winning'
- Why Obama Doesn't Care If He's Winning or Losing the PR Battle—"Now that he doesn't have to face voters again, it's about fixing the government."
- The Shutdown Prophet—"Washington couldn't have gone dark without a radicalized Republican Party. Or maybe it was destined to all along."
- Shutdown's roots lie in deeply embedded divisions in America's politics WaPo
- The Triumph Of The Ratfuckers—"Let us raise a morning glass to Donald Segretti, the ratfucker."
- If America is the world's greatest power, why the infantile politics?—"The US is on the brink of disaster, brought to it by a movement unique in its startling lack of realism and rigour."
- Dem Rep Blasts GOP Shutdown Stalemate: 'So We Sit Here Until They Figure Out They F*ck*n' Lost'
- Dennis Ross, GOP Rep: 'Pride' Is Why Republicans Won't Budge On Government Shutdown—Their idea of 'compromise' is anything but.
- House GOP flounders to explain shutdown
- Republicans, Over the Cliff
- The shutdown is a Republican civil war WaPo
- Mitch McConnell's vanishing act WaPo
- Boehner's Shutdown Fallback Plan Is Doomed
- Fool me with a budget commission once, shame on you. Fool me eight times …
- GOP floats six-week funding and debt ceiling extension
- Republicans in California greet government shutdown with worry—It's not all sunshine.
- SNL skewers John Boehner and Michelle Bachmann Hilarious Miley Cyrus Parody 'We Did Stop (The Government)'
- For Rep. Ted Yoho, government shutdown is 'the tremor before the tsunami'—"I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling. [...] I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets." Freaky scary stupidity.
- Reid: Boehner Has Been 'Waylaid' By Tea Party
- Obama: Unlike Cruz, I Didn't Seek Media Attention As Senator
- Riding the Tea Party tiger: Has it been worth it for GOP?
- Slaves to 'the base'—"Increasingly, American politics is controlled by the most militant factions within each party." And how base they are indeed.
- The Truth About Obamacare and How It Solves the Suffering of the Insured
- The myth about job-killing Obamacare—"It won't be the job killer the GOP makes it out to be."
- The Uninsured Are Spread Throughout Red States, Too—"The people who stand to gain the most from the health care law don't live in just Democratic House districts."
- Frankenstein Goes to Congress—"When it comes to Obamacare, Republicans are hanging on to the towel." NYT
- Obamacare begins – and the right is terrified that it will work
- Michigan battle over 'Obamacare' becomes fight for soul of GOP—"Analysis: State Republicans narrowly favor Medicaid expansion."
- Nina Dobrev poses semi-nude to show her support for Obamacare—#GetCovered
- Closure of War Memorials Continues to Cause Conflict
- Government shutdowns are even worse for Washington's museums than you think
- US government researchers barred from scientific conferences
- Lake Mead property owners forced out until shutdown ends
- Federal judge slaps down Darrell Issa over request for shutdown exception
- House Passes Bill Allowing Back Pay For Furloughed Workers
- Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, Hagel says
- The Theology of Government Shutdown: Christian Dominionism
- Christian TV Host Asks God for 'Military Takeover' of Obama's Presidency
- Virginia Republican: 'Jesus' saved me from Harvard Law School
- 'Serious Racism Here': Ed Schultz Insists GOP's Shutdown Showdown Motivated by 'Hate'
- The GOP's White Southern Republican Problem
- Conservatives' Biggest Fear: Being Called Racist
- Allen West reportedly fired for anti-Semitic remark
- Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to be overseen by monitor, judge rules
- Scott Walker tramples Wisconsin values with United Sportsmen scandal
- Still in Office, Mayor Already Collecting $99,735 Annual Public Pension
- Postal Service defaults on $5.6 billion payment—Setting an impossible goal so that it fail and then be privatized.
- How the feds took down the Dread Pirate Roberts
- NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
- 'Tor Stinks' presentation—"Top-secret presentation says 'We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time' but 'with manual ana+lysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users.'"
- Silk Road underground market closed – but others will replace it—"The high profile 'dark web' drugstore has been shut down, leaving room for a plethora of copycats and rivals."
- Security Flaw Shows Tor Anonymity Network Dominated by Botnet Command and Control Traffic
- Schneier: Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public—"By reporting on the agency's actions, the vulnerabilities in our computer systems can be fixed. It's the only way to force change."
- What Happened to Obama's NSA Reforms?—"Two months ago, the President embraced limited reforms to domestic spying. So far, he's produced limited results."
- Sen. Feinstein Claims The NSA Does Collect Phone Call Location Information, Contradicting The NSA
- DOJ's non-ironic arguments rejecting Google, Facebook user data transparency requests
- GCHQ report on 'MULLENIZE' program to 'stain' anonymous electronic traffic
