Outside the Beltway

The Toomer’s Corner trees were poisoned by a rabid Alabama fan.

A county in the far southwest corner of Virginia is the latest battle ground in the ongoing battle over the separation of church and state.

IBM’s Watson computer crushed human competitors on Jeopardy. What does it mean?

Dave Fleet offers 5 TIPS FOR MANAGING THE EMAIL DELUGE.

President Obama isn’t unbeatable in 2012. but it’s clear even now that he’s going to be a far more formidable opponent than many Republicans seem to think.

Beck is now concerned about Google.

Like in Bahrain, the Libyan authorities are not tolerating protests.

The protests in Bahrain have taken a different path than those in Egypt.

“Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!” A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, “Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?” He replied, “They had eggs.”

Being unemployed, especially in the long term, makes it less likely to get hired.

You don’t have to be Admiral Akbar to suspect that the President’s refusal to deal with entitlements in his budget proposal is a trap for the GOP.

Critics of the GOP’s efforts to restrict Federal funding of abortion and related services confuse the concept of the right to have an abortion with the idea that someone has a claim on taxpayer dollars.

Thanks to the help of a group of Tea Party Freshman in the House. Congress has finally cut off funding for a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that the Pentagon never wanted.

Prominent commentators on the Left and Right are amused by an outrageous assault on CBS reporter Lara Logan.

Tweeting feels like IM’ing but it’s more like blogging.

Rick Santorum is upset that a Google search for his name produces a string of unflattering material. You should be, too.

Politico (Jay Carney got $270K from Time magazine after leaving) has uncovered a major payola scandal. Or is hyping a complete non-story.

Ten days is not a lot of time for constitutional reform.

It turns out the Iraq War was indeed based, in part at least, on a lie.

Here are some cooking tips from a master chef.

The success of Christian conservatives in blocking efforts to legalize Sunday alcohol sales in Georgia demonstrates why concentrating solely on national politics is a mistake.

The White House Press Office produces a blog, YouTube channel, Flickr photo stream, Facebook and Twitter profiles, and daily video programming.

Four years after Barack Obama became a Presidential candidate, the birther myth not only persists, it seems to be becoming more prevalent. Why?