Outside the Beltway

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.

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.

Topics include the WikiLeaks episode and its fallout, the DISCLOSE Act, filibuster reform, and the possibility that the economy has already recovered as much as it’s going to.