YEAH, RIGHT: Obama was unaware of spying on foreign leaders.

ROMNEY: Don't drag me into your ObamaCare mess.

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: America's 'other' health-care revolution. American individualism and ingenuity at work.

IEEE SPECTRUM: Information technology woes. Let's see: there's ObamaCare (obviously), but also various state government systems, Microsoft's Windows 8.1 (my bane), Facebook, Nissan, and many others.

More glitches: spiders in Toyotas, easyJet reservations, and unemployment in Florida.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is Obama still President?

Three considerations are keeping the U.S. afloat without an active president. First, many working Americans have tuned the president out and simply go on about their business despite rather than because of this administration. If gas and oil leases have been curtailed on federal lands, there is record production on private land. Farmers are producing huge harvests and receiving historically high prices. Wall Street welcomes in capital that can find no return elsewhere. American universities’ science departments and professional schools still rate among the world’s best. There is as yet no French or Chinese Silicon Valley. In other words, after five years of stagnation, half the public more or less ignores the Obama administration and plods on.

In name only. Obama is the Virtual President of the 'reality-based community' where the thought is taken for the deed.

MITT ROMNEY has an adopted grandchild — and the left erupts with venom. The grandchild is, uh ... not white.

IT'S ALIVE! Orion capsule powered up for first time.

ALAN GRAYSON IS AN IDIOT: Some thoughts about lunatics.

OBAMA: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Uh,huh. At the cost of an extra $3,600/year, as my doctor is moving to a concierge plan in 2014 as a result of ObamaCare. Luckily(?) I can keep my (employer-sponsored) health plan for another six months or so.

ASTRONAUT CHRIS HADFIELD on space exploration.

YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEALTH PLAN -- if Obama likes it.

[T]his paternalistic mindset ... can also explain why the Obama administration was so willing to mislead on Obamacare: If people don’t know what’s best for them, there’s no reason to deal with them honestly.

It's about control; it's always about control.

BRYAN PRESTON: Five things we learned from today's ObamaCare hearing. Based on Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) security-related comments, you'd have to be either a fool or desperate to use the ObamaCare website.

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S campaign group polling supporters on ObamaCare. Somehow I doubt the poll results will be made public....

OFFICER'S RENDITION of 'God Bless America' wows World Series.

Jeez ... more proof, if any is needed, that the media is desperately in need of people who are at least somewhat familiar with the military. As anyone can easily the gentleman is an enlisted Navy petty officer first class (which they got right in the interview segment).

That said, however, he is a great singer, and congratulations to Fox News channel for having him on the air.

A HALLOWEEN COSTUME the Left can embrace.

DREAM CHASER: Mission accomplished despite crash landing.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane: If you follow the news even intermittently, you've been bombarded with the statement that 'healthcare constitutes one sixth of the U.S. economy.

Here's a question: Why does 'healthcare' take 1/6 of the economy? The answer, unless you're stupid or a Democrat, is obvious: regulation. But the answer only begs a larger question: What are the dollar costs of all the rules and regulations? What are the dollar benefits (savings) associated with the regulations. And are the benefits worth the costs?

I have yet to see any substantive discussion of the cost of government regulation -- especially the cost of overreacting to regulation (e.g., zero tolerance policies in schools).

HEALTH HAS COSTS: Gluten-free foods that make you gain weight.

I AM ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT in my utter lack of confidence in your overabundance of confidence.