Outside the Beltway

A number of disturbing incidents point towards increased anti-Islam hostility in the United States.

The first in a multi-part series on the Electoral College.

Everyone seems to agree that the new 1099 reporting requirements contained in the health care reform bill are a bad idea, but nobody wants to take the time to repeal them.

The Electoral College is the worst way to elect a President, except for all the others.

The United States Congress is starting to resemble a grade-school playground.

The phone call is a dying legacy of a bygone day, supplanted by less intrusive forms of communication.

California Rep. Dan Lungren was pulled over for speeding during a live radio interview.

The US standard of living is not only growing but its lead over Europe and Japan is growing.

While Congressional Democrats are being careful not to dance on Charlie Rangel’s grave, President Obama is showing no such compunction.

Portland authorities have decided, for a second time, that there isn’t enough evidence to charge Al Gore with sexual assault in a 2006 case.

The latest GDP numbers are nothing but bad news for Democrats.

The Anti-Defamation League has taken an unfortunate stand on a issue involving religious tolerance and bigotry.

Despite facing a thirteen-count ethics complaint, Charlie Rangel probably isn’t going anywhere.

Screaming at one another and treating political opponents as enemies doesn’t seem to be getting us anywhere. But is there a realistic alternative?

The link between immigration and crime rates that many immigration opponents point to simply does not exist

Some long-awaited cleanup is underway, so please excuse any wonkiness as the work gets done.

Angle is smartly focusing her commercials on the economy, and it is helping her numbers.

Crist’s gamble continues to appear to have been a good one.

President Obama went on TV and said something true. What was he thinking?

A review by the Army of its alarming spike in suicides blames it on the new strain of risk-seeking recruits who join during wartime and commanders who neglect to rein them in.

The requirement that “members act at all times in a way that reflects creditably on the House” has a parallel in the UCMJ’s “conduct unbecoming” clause.

The Loan Wars Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

U.S. passports still aren’t perfect.

It was another bad day for Charlie Rangel, but something tells me he’s going to be just fine.

Immigration “moderate” Lindsey Graham is suddenly sounding not so moderate.

The Obama administration is refusing to enforce border security, right?

A new poll claims that the health care reform law is now supported by a majority of Americans. Don’t believe it.

Congress has (after many years of debate) narrowed the gap between sentencing for crack cocaine and powder cocaine.

Why I wasn’t fooled by Barack Obama’s campaign promises to curb presidential power.

Can a public university expel a student for a religiously-motivated aversion to homosexuality?

Yes, a lot of people are dying on the Arizona border, but the cause is not the drug war. Rather, it is simple fact that crossing the desert on foot is a dangerous proposition. (And this is not a new phenomenon).

The Obama administration wants the FBI to be able to look at your Internet records without the inconvenience of respecting your 4th Amendment rights.

Now that the flood of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig has been staunched, some are arguing that the prophesied environmental catastrophe was greatly overblown.

The concentration of policy wonks in the Washington-New York-Boston corridor produces skewed analysis.