Outside the Beltway

Of the U.S. military’s 10 combatant commands, only three are held by Army or Marine generals.

You aren’t allowed the sing the Star Spangled Banner at the Lincoln Memorial.

The results of last night’s Colorado Senate primaries should be causing Democrats to worry.

Jenny, the hottie who quit her job in style using a dry erase board and became an Internet sensation, is actually an actress named Elyse Porterfield.

The average federal government employee earns twice as much as the average private sector worker. An outrage? Not so much.

Another round of primaries last night made the playing field for November just a little bit clearer to see.

There isn’t as much GOP unity over the idea of changing America’s citizenship rules as you might think.

A special tax rate for millionaires wouldn’t raise much additional revenue but it would make journalists feel better.

The White House seems to be getting annoyed at the criticism coming it’s way from the left.

Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was one of nine people on board a plane that crashed in a remote area of Alaska overnight.

Pat Leahy suggests allowing retired SCOTUS Justices fill in when a sitting member recuses himself. A great idea on paper, it won’t work in practice.

Attractive women face discrimination when applying for “masculine” jobs. The benefit from their attractiveness in all other jobs, however.

Greg Gutfeld claims to be working to build a gay bar next door to the controversial Cordoba House Muslim cultural center a few blocks from Ground Zero.

Conservatives seem very eager for Hillary Clinton to get back on the campaign trial, but it’s not going to happen.

Last night’s preseason opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cincinnati Bengals was the worst sports broadcast I’ve ever seen, barring any recent Olympics.

Turnabout is fair play: Strippers are picketing a church that’s picketing their strip club.

A mere thirty years after the Rubik’s Cube craze died out, a team of math geeks has proven once and for all that the puzzle can be solved in 20 moves or less from any position.

Tish Long, the new director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is the first woman to head a major U.S. intelligence agency.

Are government imposed mandates making it impossible for businesses to justify hiring new workers?

Despite 9.5% unemployment, American firms are struggling to find qualified applicants for job openings.

For-profit universities are defrauding their students. Indeed, it’s their business model.

Remember when dealing with the utterances of Hugo Chávez that you should take them with a grain of salt (or twelve).

Hezbollah can tolerate the restoration of a synagogue, but many Americans are apoplectic about a Muslim community center and mosque two blocks from where the WTC once stood.

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

Colombia has sworn in a new president. And so begins the Santos era as the Uribe era heads for the history books.

The Republican campaign against birthright citizenship doesn’t seem to be gaining the kind of support they expected.

Lenders and Borrowers seem poised to make the same mistakes that brought about the last Housing Bubble all over again.

According to health inspectors in Portland, Oregon, this little girl is potentially a threat to your health and safety.

Google has an inordinate amount of information about you and your circle of friends.

It’s rumored that Rick Gervais, who starred in the British original version of “The Office,” will reprise his role of David Brent and replace Steve Carrell on the American version of the show.

German government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007.