Outside the Beltway

Apple isn’t the only company collecting data off their smartphones.

The new CBS/NYT poll is out and the numbers are not exactly happy, no matter whom you support.

Why, yes, my iPhone has indeed been tracking me since last summer.

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

The Pentagon is frustrated that the Obama administration doesn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do.”

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

Standard & Poor’s didn’t believe the Obama Administration’s argument that Washington would be able to fix the deficit. There’s no reason they should have.

Barack Obama dressed as a pirate

One can almost hear the pitter-patter of American boots in the distance.

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

Mobile homes account for nearly half of all tornado deaths in the United States.

What ever became of Private Robert H. Lister of the 165th Infantry?

The CIA has declassified the last six documents from the World War One era.

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

Dave Schuler’s a hard man to rile. But stay away from him on tax day.

According to a new poll, the American public still isn’t sold on the idea of cutting entitlements to cut the budget deficit.