MORE CRITICISM OF PPP Polling.

A BUSY THREE YEARS for Michigan’s Solicitor General.

JENNIFER RUBIN: It’s Not Too Late To Sink ObamaCare. Taking advantage of the software debacle and the premium-increase shocks.

HEARING: The Park Service’s Washington Bully Strategy.

MORE ON THOSE OVERGENEROUS/UNDERFUNDED PUBLIC PENSIONS: Municipal Bankruptcy and Pension Reform: A Way Out? – Event Audio/Video.

PRE-CHRISTMAS SHOPPING at the Amazon Holiday Toy List.

Also, costumes, candy and decor at the Amazon Halloween Store.

INSTAVISION: My interview With Steven Pressfield is now on YouTube.

TAR, FEATHERS: Teen Facing Sex Offender Prosecution for Streaking Prank Kills Himself.

JAMES TARANTO: In Defense of Kathleen Sebelius: The ObamaCare disaster isn’t just a management failure.

There are people who deserve to lose their jobs for ObamaCare, and some of them have. In 2010 three senators and numerous representatives were ousted by voters after having voted in favor of the legislation. The following year Rep. Nancy Pelosi lost her job as House speaker. Over at the Internal Revenue Service, Lois Lerner recently “retired” after her role in the agency’s politicization came to light.

Unfortunately, thanks in part to her, the man who most deserved to be fired over ObamaCare, Obama himself, instead had his tenure extended by four years. Had the president been ousted, Sebelius would have been as well. But because we are stuck with Obama, we are stuck with ObamaCare. As for who is secretary of HHS, what difference, at this point, does it make?

Indeed.

HOW THE SHUTDOWN could still hurt Democrats. “This risk in calling a fractional shutdown a shutdown is one piece of what should be a bigger concern for everyone who believes in public programs: the fact that we often underachieve in exactly the places where everyday Americans interact with government most.” I’m not convinced that we underachieve any less in the places Americans don’t see . . . .

EUGENE KONTOROVICH: Universal Jurisdiction and Belgium’s Remarkable Capture of a Pirate Ringleader.

IT’S NO PANACEA, BUT IT HELPS: Exercise As Preventive Medicine.

ROGER KIMBALL: Remembering America. Note this: “The United States has 5 percent of the world’s people, 25 percent of its incarcerated people, and half of its trained lawyers (who now take about 10 percent of the GDP); the legal system is an embarrassment, and the criminal-justice system is a disgrace, in which prosecutors win 99.5 percent of their cases, 97 percent of them without a trial. The legislators of the country are ultimately responsible for this corruption of what the Constitution and Bill of Rights set up as a just and merciful Society of Laws.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

A MARKET FOR state borders.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: University of Iowa Law School Cuts Tuition For Out-Of-State Students By 20% To Combat Declining Enrollment.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen. I just hope all these developments don’t hurt demand for my new book before it comes out.

THINK I’LL BUY ANOTHER GUN OR TWO: MoveOn.Org petition demands GOP arrests for ‘conspiracy against US.’ Because these people are making plain how they think, and what they’d do if they had the power to. Take it seriously, because they do.

MICHAEL BARONE: Washington Is Partisan: Get Used To It. “America’s Midcentury Moment was just that—and American politics has returned to its combative, partisan, divisive default mode. In the 1790s, Americans were divided over a world-wide war between commercial Britain and revolutionary France. Political strife was bitter. In the antebellum years, Americans were deeply split over issues from the Bank of the United States to slavery in the territories. For three generations after the Civil War, Americans North and South lived almost entirely apart from each other. The Midcentury Moment emerged as the result of three unexpected developments, two of them unwelcome—depression, war, postwar prosperity—and was communicated through the language of an unusually vivid and unusually universal popular culture. Absent these things—and it’s hard to see how they could return—our politicians aren’t likely to all get along.”

MICHAEL WALSH: Most Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. “The GOP is not, in any meaningful sense, a conservative, first-principles, Constitutionalist Party — and unless it’s subsumed by the Tea Party, it never will be. Rather, it’s content to be the lesser half of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party as long as it can collect some of the pork scraps from underneath the table of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Government. No wonder they keep losing — they like it.”

ON THE UPSIDE, IT WORKS BETTER THAN THE OBAMACARE EXCHANGES. Apple loses some of its magic touch with iOS 7. “Apple’s iOS 7 launch is fast becoming its most troubled mobile operating system update, increasing concern that the technology giant has lost some of its magic touch since co-founder Steve Jobs passed away two years ago. Since iOS 7 was released Sept. 18, the list of bugs and flaws has grown.”

Plus, the cruelest user review of all: “It did feel more like a Microsoft release.”

HONESTLY, IF IT WAS MY SOFTWARE POWERING THE EXCHANGES I’M NOT SURE I’D WANT ANYONE TO KNOW: Obamacare Website Violates Licensing Agreement for Copyrighted Software: Company to pursue action against HHS for using copyrighted web script.

21ST CENTURY GOVERNANCE: “We must increase our debt limit so that we can pay our bills.”

LESSONS FROM LONEGAN: “Starting from as much as 35 points behind as recently as the aftermath of the August primary, Lonegan wound up losing by 10.3 percentage points, according to nearly complete returns. This was a margin of defeat little more than half of that suffered by Mitt Romney last year and the moderate Republican U. S. Senate nominee last year. As to Senate candidates in deep-blue New Jersey, his 44.3 percent tied for the best GOP percentage since the late Congressman Bob Franks came within 3 points of upsetting Jon Corzine back in 2000.”

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Health Website Woes Widen as Insurers Get Wrong Data: New Errors Indicate Technological Problems Extend Issues Already Identified.

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Also, costumes and more in the Kids’ Halloween Store.

SCIENCE REDISCOVERS WHAT EVERYONE KNEW HALF A CENTURY AGO: Parenting: Regular Bedtimes Tied to Better Behavior. “A regular bedtime schedule is unquestionably helpful for parents, but a new study has found it that it may be even more beneficial for their children. . . . After controlling for many social, economic and parental behavioral factors, the scientists found that children with a regular bedtime, whether early or late, had fewer behavioral problems. And the longer irregular bedtimes persisted, the more severe the difficulties were.”