- Obama Calls Government Shutdown 'Manufactured Crises'
- John Boehner And House Republicans Took A Huge Reputation Hit From The Shutdown
- Cruz: Senate won't make same mistake in next fight—And he wants to hold GOPers 'accountable' for opposing defunding.
- FreedomWorks CEO: Shutdown, Debt Crisis Were 'Brilliant Republican Strategy'
- The G.O.P.'s Phantom Schism—"There's not a dime's worth of ideological difference between the Republican establishment and the Tea Party extremists."
- GOP congressman apologizes for scolding Park Service ranger
- Conspiracy theories explain the right—"The conservative mindset is in decline. Stories of cabals and secret plots provide comfort as its power wanes." Salon
- States Are Focus of Effort to Foil Health Care Law—"Conservative groups are increasingly taking the fight against President Obama's health care law to states like Virginia in an effort to block Medicaid expansion." NYT
- Obamacare figures leave a lot unsaid—"About a half million people have taken the first step toward enrolling in Obamacare health coverage, creating applications on the exchanges, administration officials said late Saturday." Politico
- Three days in a US hospital convinced me that America needs ObamaCare—"The bare-faced callousness of the American healthcare system is obvious. This isn't a hospital; it’s the Wild West."
- Searching for a Mate—It's trending for same-sex couples.
- Online Dating Really Can Lead to Love
- A Freudian analysis of sexting Salon
- How Grindr has transformed users' experience of intimacy
- 2 Men Robbed In Mountain View Online Dating Scam
Engaged
- Surprise marriage proposal at Salt Lake City Home Depot
- Florida man tasered after naked marriage proposal at wrong house
- Math wiz who said he had 1 in 285,000 chance of love -- now engaged—"Peter Backus, who once published a research paper called 'Why I Don't Have A Girlfriend,' finds his one true love. How? With an algorithm?"
- Woman makes 300 sandwiches to get engagement ring from boyfriend
- Blind couple to marry after guide dogs fall in love
- Wedding bells for couple sixty years after meeting
- Jon Bon Jovi Surprises Fan, Branka Delic, By Walking Her Down The Aisle
- Royal wedding: Nigerian prince marries in Loughgall village
- Pastor Refuses to Marry Couple an Hour Before Ceremony Because Bride's Dress is Too Sexy
- Best Men Brothers' final plea
- NJ Supreme Court rules same-sex couples can marry beginning Monday—Christie relents (was that his plan all along?) and NJ senator-elect Booker will officiate some of them.
- Portland Trailblazers Come Out in Support of Gay Marriage—Making headway in Oregon. [Politico]
- France rules mayors cannot refuse to marry gay couples
- California: 95-year-old war veteran marries boyfriend of 20 years
- In The Fight For Marriage Equality, A Battle To See Who Will Make It Happen—"Virginia has become a battleground for lawyers from multiple legal organizations and major law firms aiming to take a marriage equality case back to the Supreme Court."
- Meloney Selleneit Guilty Of Getting Husband To Shoot Neighbor For 'Telepathically Raping' Her
- U.S. Accuses 2 Rabbis of Kidnapping Husbands for a Fee—"A service offered by two rabbis used cattle prods and other methods to motivate recalcitrant husbands, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation." NYT
- Senior couple charged in decades old cold cases
- Jail Becomes Home for Husband Stuck With Lifetime Alimony—"Ari Schochet has grown so accustomed to being sent to jail for missing alimony payments that he goes into a routine."
- Alimony Reform Laws Focus on the Exception to the Rule and to the Detriment of the American Family
- The Young Turks: Should Alimony Be Banned?
- Miami man claims self-defense; photo of wife's body was posted on Facebook
- Police: Intruder strangled by nurse was hit man—"Man was allegedly hired by woman's husband to kill her, not a burglar."
- Court orders retrial in Google Maps-related murder case—"Evidence planting alleged by ex-Cisco employee convicted of killing wife."
- Newlywed wife accused of pushing husband off Montana cliff
- Victims found holding hands in wreckage were married 68 years
