Outside the Beltway

Usually, Defendants plead guilty for perfectly rational reasons.

Microsoft is making millions from Android phones, despite having nothing to do with designing, marketing, manufacturing, or distributing them.

There’s apparently a new proposal on the table at the debt negotiations, and it looks very interesting.

It’s the marketing of college as a panacea that’s a scam, not college itself.

Georgia Congressman Paul Broun has a radical suggestion: While we’re playing chicken with the nation’s debt, let’s cut $1.3 trillion from the debt ceiling!

The Casey Anthony trials lends evidence to support Jon Stewart’s basic hypothesis about the MSM.

Illegal immigration from Mexico is down substantially, and it has nothing to do with all those anti-immigration laws.

The biggest news story of the past six weeks was something completely trivial.

President Obama smiled as he signed the 2009 stimulus into law, but the results aren’t anything to smile about.

Whatever happened to the GOP’s promise to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act?

The so-called “14th Amendment option” to fix the debt ceiling crisis is really just a prescription for an even more powerful Presidency.

The Obama Justice Department is siding against historians trying to protect the confidentiality of their sources.

More people are chasing careers in film than there are careers in film. And not just in front of the camera.

I have been only peripherally aware of the trial–and then only in the way that I’m aware of Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and reality TV.

A Florida jury has found Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her daughter. The criminal justice system works.

What exactly is the GOP trying to accomplish in the debt ceiling negotiations?

We’re working longer than ever and working even when we’re “off.”

Will Joe Biden be on the podium with Barack Obama at the 2012 Democratic convention, or will there be a new running mate?

Some thoughts on the American experiment at 235 years and counting.

A rider in a protest against motorcycle helmet laws crashed his motorcycle and died from head injuries he would have survived had he been wearing a helmet.

220 years in, we lack basic agreement about what the United States Constitution does

British professor Julian Lindley-French offers a tongue-in-cheek essay for the 4th of July: “American Independence: Time to End the Experiment.”

While it’s true that the South and the Heartland disproportionately contribute to our all-volunteer force, the notion that our forces are mostly Nebraska farmboys is false.

Tennis’ most aristocratic championship is also its most democratic.