Obamacare, Failing Ahead of Schedule  —  THIS is not the column about the Obamacare rollout I expected to write.  —  If you had told me, months ago, that weeks after the health care law's coverage expansion went into effect I would be writing about the problems its launch had exposed …

Cruz to CNN: 'I don't work for the party bosses in Washington'  —  (CNN) - Back in his home state after the reopening of the government, Sen. Ted Cruz didn't rule out the idea of again staging the strategy that helped lead to the 16-day partial shutdown and bashed his fellow Senate Republicans …

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.  —  The “almost half million” figure the officials reported …

Even Oprah isn't on board with ObamaCare  —  As the White House was gearing up to sell ObamaCare to the American people last summer, Valerie Jarrett, the president's pointwoman on a host of issues, phoned Oprah Winfrey.  —  She invited the Queen of All Media to join celebrities …

Tentative Deal Hands JPMorgan Chase a Record Penalty  —  JPMorgan Chase and the Justice Department have reached a tentative $13 billion settlement over the bank's questionable mortgage practices leading up to the financial crisis, a record penalty that would cap weeks of heated negotiating …

Now, lead from the front  —  Let us hear no more about President Obama leading from behind.  —  Since a White House adviser uttered that phrase to the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza in 2011 to describe Obama's leadership in Libya, “leading from behind” has become a favorite refrain of Republicans trying to portray Obama as weak.

Alan Greenspan still thinks he's right  —  Steven Pearlstein is a business and economics columnist for The Washington Post and a Robinson professor of political and international affairs at George Mason University.  —  Alan Greenspan's last book, “The Age of Turbulence,” …

Again: Arabs Fly Nazi Flag Near Road  —  For at least the second time in five months, Arab residents of Beit Umar in the Palestinian Authority (PA) have placed a Nazi flag over a major thoroughfare where Jews pass in their vehicles.  —  Beit Umar is located between Halhoul and the Etzion Bloc, not far from Hevron.

This Should Be Fun: Sen. Bernie Sanders Will Be On Budget Conference Committee  —  In what can only be seen as good news for people who like traditional earned-benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare, here's one name that appears on the list of Senate conferees …

Pot Legalization Effort Moves Eastward To Maine  —  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Advocates of recreational marijuana use are looking to an upcoming vote in Maine as an indicator of whether the East Coast is ready to follow in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington by legalizing cannabis.

Clinton decries ‘scorched-earth politics’ in Washington  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decried the “scorched-earth politics” that led to the government shutdown at a campaign event for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Saturday.