Outside the Beltway

Is asking to see a professor’s e-mails a legitimate open records request or is it an attempt at silencing a critic?

GE made $14.2 billion in profits last year but paid zero corporate taxes to the United States Government. Legally.

Natural disasters in Japan have lessened the supply of pigments necessary to make black paint.

The race for the 2012 Republican nomination is missing the one thing that GOP nomination battles have almost always had, a frontrunner.

The Libyan rebels probably aren’t strong enough to defeat Gaddafi on their own, and the no-fly zone isn’t going to be enough either. Which means this operation is going to be far more extensive than President Obama is willing to admit publicly.

They say anyone can grow up to be president. Michele Bachmann is apparently taking them at their word.

Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune posted a want ad for an investigative reporter and it’s gone viral.

The public, and Congress, are skeptical of the mission in Libya, and the reason for that is because the President has failed to tell us exactly why we’re there and what we’ll be doing.

It has become quite apparent that neither the White House nor our coalition partners have any idea what the path to an endgame in Libya even looks like. That’s not good.

Newt Gingrich on Libya: “This is as badly executed, I think, as any policy we’ve seen since WWII, and it will become a case study for how not to engage in this type of activity.”

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

Infographic on How to Have a Rational Discussion.

People and businesses are sitting on cash out of fear, creating a vicious cycle.

Radley Balko and his blogs are moving to Huffington Post.

Nuclear power remains far safer than coal. The awful events in Fukushima must not spook governments outlawing atomic energy.

When America’s leaders make the decision to engage in military action abroad, has the time for debate ended, or is it more important than ever that those with doubts about the policy speak out?

Former Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton Warren Christopher has died