Outside the Beltway

More evidence of what we already knew: the public isn’t especially interested in cutting entitlements.

Video of “An experiment to see the effects of installing every major upgrade version of windows, in order, on the same machine.”

Pfc. Bradley Manning faces twenty-two new charges, including one that could put him before a firing squad, but investigators still can’t prove any direct links between him and Wikileaks.

Northwestern’s Human Sexuality course includes a naked woman being brought to orgasm with a dildo.

A day after apologizing for an odd comment about the President’s upbringing, Mike Huckabee now feeds into the conservative myth that Barack Obama isn’t a real American.

The United States Army is radically redesigning its physical fitness test.

At what point does the legitimate right to demonstrate cross the line into infringing on the rights of others?

Intervening to “help” the Libyan revolt is very tempting, but it’s a temptation we ought to resist.

Critics of Barack Obama’s foreign policy should engage his actual policies — not policies that don’t actually exist.

The Supreme Court rules that “offensiveness” does not trump the First Amendment. And they’re right.

Speaking before Congress yesterday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke debunked the assertion that the GOP’s relatively modest $61 billion spending cut package would significantly harm economic growth.

It’s not the size of your government that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.

Establishing a no-fly zone isn’t likely to be enough to remove the current Libyan regime from power.

Americans had it so much better in the 1950s, right?

In lieu of flowers, at Jim’s request, please make a donation to ANYONE running against Barack Hussein Obama

The privitization of Federal helium reserves is a textbook example of the damage to the nation that can be caused by imprudent budget cutting.

Sometimes the most sensible result can be the hardest to reach. This isn’t one of those times.

Why can’t the Wisconsin Stand-off end in compromise?

The most likely cuts in federal spending are likely to actually increase the deficit over time.