The faux scandal of today comes to us courtesy of The Daily Caller: “Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website.”
Women in Texas who changed their name when they got married may have trouble voting.
The good folks at The Guardian wonder, “Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?”
Jofi Joseph was unmasked as the obnoxious @NatSecWonk and fired by the White House.
Two veteran reporters, including the dean of the Virginia press corps, have been fired by the AP after falsely reporting that Terry McAuliffe lied to federal authorities.
My review of Andrew Bacevich’s latest book, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.
My latest for The National Interest, “The Military and the Shutdown: Assessing the Damage,” is out.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch has endorsed “none of the above” for governor of Virginia.
Wendy Lower documents the half-million women who helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust.
Nick Brown spelled bullshit and managed to debunk an entire academic subfield.
If the Syrian civil war is like other civil wars, it’s not ending any time soon.
The iconic football program built by the legendary Eddie Robinson, is now a sad disgrace.
Two Boy Scout leaders toppled a rock formation at Utah’s Goblin Valley State Park that dates to the Jurassic period.
Bum Phillips, former head coach of the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints, has died aged 90.
NBA legend Bill Russell was arrested earlier this week for having a loaded .38 in his luggage.
Wal-Mart has fired an employee for coming to the aid of a customer being assaulted in the parking lot.
Nearly two-thirds of House Republicans voted for default. They lost.
As long as we’re tacking on unrelated measures in order to secure a deal to end the government shutdown-debt ceiling standoff, why not some related measures?
Here’s our debate over shutting down the government over Obamacare in a nutshell.
Why the federal government is so bad at information technology and getting worse by the day.
An agency has won the Nobel Peace Prize for something that hasn’t happened yet.
Recent anti-corruption measures have contributed to making American government worse.
63% are angry at Republicans, 57% are angry at Democrats, and 53% are angry at President Obama.
90 percent of DoD civilians will go back to work soon. What message does that send?
Reasonable members of the House GOP caucus are fighting back. Are they outnumbered?
The Defense Department might open for business while the rest of government remains shut down.
The diary entries of a dying Ulysses S. Grant shed some interesting insights into a different time.
The NFL donates its game broadcasts to troops deployed in harm’s way but they still won’t get to see them during the shutdown.
Air Force lieutenant colonel (designate) Erik Brine is so unessential that it hurts.
Tom Clancy, author of dozens of bestselling military thriller novels, has died aged 66.
Nick Gillespie advances the counterintuitive argument that President Obama is responsible for today’s government shutdown.
The American taxpayer spent a lot of money today paying their employees not to work.
The Miley Cyrus of college football will be back too soon.
The federal government won’t have money to pay its workers come Tuesday but it’ll spend like a drunken sailor on Monday.
With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.
One inmate’s view of the asylum.
My latest for Defense One, “The Army’s Misguided Crackdown on Tattoos,” has posted.
It remains to be seen whether Congressional Republicans will force a government shutdown. What’s already clear is how counterproductive it would be.
The communications chairman of the Democratic Party of Sacramento County wished a horrible death on the children of Ted Cruz’ speechwriter.
The Emmys will honor Cory Monteith but not Jack Klugman or Larry Hagman. Where in that sentence you said “Who?” will tell us how old you are.
Cathy’s husband and Jess’ father, Jer, was killed in the shooting spree at the Navy Yard.
My latest for The Atlantic, “It Isn’t the Military’s Place to Weigh In on the Syria Debate,” has posted.
