PAUL GREENBERG: The Shutdown Shuts Down.

POOR BABIES: Returning federal workers face horrific amount of unread emails.

MARK STEYN on Republicans and the shutdown: "Republicans spent a lot of time whining that, if Obama was prepared to negotiate with the Iranians, the Syrians, and the Russians, why wouldn’t he negotiate with the GOP? Well, the obvious answer is Rouhani, Assad, and Putin don’t curl up in a fetal position at the first tut-tut from Bob Schieffer or Diane Sawyer."

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I'VE ALWAYS WANTED A PET TUMBLEWEED.

YOU ARE HERE: only there's no grass and no shade.

MORNING EXAMINER: Obama running the 'most control-freak' administration ever?