Outside the Beltway

Anti-Immigrant groups are beginning their assault on the 14th Amendment, but don’t expect it to go anywhere.

The American military personnel system works against keeping the best and brightest officers in the service.

Honest pundits will tell you that it’s simply too early to make useful predictions about the 2012 elections.

The cost/benefit ratio of tablet computers seems to be a bit…. lacking.

Captain Dee Mewbourne, who previously commanded the EISENHOWER, will skipper the ENTERPRISE.

New research shows that “across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol” and, conversely, “a positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption (and especially between monogamy and drunkenness) across societies.”

Why is the press gushing over routine movement in White House team?

In a new interview, Justice Antonin Scalia says that the 14th Amendment does not bar discrimination against women, whether it’s done by public or private entities. He couldn’t be more wrong.

Just over 100 years after his death, Mark Twain’s two greatest novels are once again the subject of controversy.

David Kurtz reports, “House Republicans are about to use “deem and pass” — a.k.a., a self-executing rule — which you may recall was the same legislative mechanism they decried last year during the health care reform debate as a threat to all that is right and good about America.”

President Obama is likely to issue a signing statement in order to keep his Gitmo options open.

The author of AZ’s SB1070 has a new idea.

Compromise in politics involves more than compromising one’s principles.

Getting an American passport will set you back around $230. Is that reasonable?

John P. Wheeler III, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund during the Ronald Reagan era, has been murdered.

Some people in the D.C. area are worried that the Federal spending gravy train may be coming to an end. They should be.

A Michigan man faces five years in prison for reading his wife’s email.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”