Outside the Beltway

Silver tequila is being marketed as an upscale super premium when, in fact, it’s the lowest form of tequila.

Has anyone told Mike Bloomberg that “No Labels” is, well, a label?

Hinckley, California — the town that Erin Brockovich made famous — has slightly less cancer than we’d expect.

Complaints from Rush Limbaugh tthat the ACLU is ignoring the intrusions into America’s civil liberties by the TSA are completely unfounded.

There are milestones in life that show how old you are.

One simple proposal on the size of the House of Representatives.

Despite yesterday’s victory for opponents of the Affordable Care Act, the prospects in the Supreme Court are not good.

Joe Miller lost the Alaska Senate election by more than 10,000 votes but he’s still fighting.

Is Congress too small and unequal to do its job?

One of the most active American diplomats of the past twenty-five years has passed away.

The archaic practice of calling one’s seniors by titles rather than their first name is actually quite useful.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows and, when it comes to the debate over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, anti-tax Republicans are making common cause with soak-the-rich progressives.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has handed the first legal defeat to the President’s health care reform package.

Yes, a federal judge has ruled the individual mandate to be unconstitutional. However, this issue is hardly settled yet.

The weekend arrest of a Columbia University Professor for an apparently consensual act raises some interesting questions about why precisely a specific act should be subject to criminal prosecution.

The Atlantic made a $1.8 million profit, mostly from Andrew Sullivan’s blog.

John Boehner’s whining about being called a “hostage taker” by President Obama is reminiscent of Newt Gingrich’s whining about being “snubbed” on Air Force One.

A new study seems to show that student evaluations of teachers are something other than a popularity contest.

Inspired by the reaction to the Julian Assange case, a feminist writer proposes dangerous changes to American rape laws.

Is the West’s string of luck about to end?

Have credit cards and ATMs eliminated the value of large currency zones?

Here’s the trailer for Marvel Studios’ “Thor.”

Columbia political science professor David Epstein has been charged with a 3-year incestuous relationship with his adult daughter.

Bernie Sanders took to the floor of the Senate yesterday to rail against President Obama’s tax cut deal. It was history in the making, but it’s not clear that it actually accomplished anything.

If the Soviets had put Jews into gas chambers, it would have been a pity.

Peter Orszag, President Obama’s first budget director, is headed to Citigroup and a multimillion dollar salary.

Joe Ratzinger, the future pope, lobbied hard against Turkey’s membership in the EU.