Virginia Democrat Calls For Forcing Doctors To Accept Medicare And Medicaid Patients  —  You would think that when your party is burying a hole that is getting harder and harder to get out of, you wouldn't want to that hole get deeper faster.  But here is Kathleen Murphy …

Rand Paul on plagiarism charges: If dueling were legal in Kentucky...  Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday that accusations of plagiarism in his speeches makes him wish dueling were legal in Kentucky.  —  “I take it as an insult, and I will not lie down and say people can call me dishonest …

HealthCare.gov: How political fear was pitted against technical needs  —  In May 2010, two months after the Affordable Care Act squeaked through Congress, President Obama's top economic aides were getting worried.  Larry Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council …

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: @GovChristie to Teacher: “I Am Tired Of You People!”  —  UPDATE: I posted this about 12 hours ago on a late Saturday night, and already it has over 30K hits.  I've never seen blog traffic like this, especially on a weekend.  Is it not obvious that there has been an enormous amount …

Texas tea party seeks Ted Cruz 2.0: David Barton  —  Texas tea party activists eager to send another firebrand in the mold of Ted Cruz to the Senate have launched a movement to draft evangelical historian David Barton to run against Sen. John Cornyn.  —  Barton, who hosts a daily radio broadcast …

Insurance Policies Not Worth Keeping  —  Congressional Republicans have stoked consumer fears and confusion with charges that the health care reform law is causing insurers to cancel existing policies and will force many people to pay substantially higher premiums next year for coverage they don't want.

In the N.B.A., ZIP Code Matters  —  AS the N.B.A. season gets under way, there is no doubt that the league's best player is 6-foot-8 LeBron James, of the Miami Heat.  Mr. James was born poor to a 16-year-old single mother in Akron, Ohio.  The conventional wisdom is that his background is typical for an N.B.A. player.

Voter ID law snags former House Speaker Jim Wright  —  FORT WORTH — Former House Speaker Jim Wright was denied a voter ID card Saturday at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.  —  “Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn't give me an ID,” Wright said.

Trick-or-treaters handed anti-abortion cards  —  By … ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The cards handed out along with candy to kids on Halloween in a northwest Albuquerque neighborhood carried pointed messages.  —  “I am not a clump of cells.”  —  “53 million killed.”