Outside the Beltway

Kids, the President of the United States has a message for you: stop hanging out and get to work.

Penn State was facing a four year suspension of its football program but worked out a less harsh punishment.

Those of you looking to fill your October evenings now have three presidential and one vice presidential debate to look forward to.

There are still three months or so go. The race is incredibly tight. And, voters are starting to really dislike both candidates.

Two words spoken by a Romney aide have led to a ridiculous firestorm on the right, while the rest of their comments are being ignored.

One Chicago politician is using clearly unconstitutional tactics in the political war on Chick-fil-A

Major metropolitan areas are routinely shut down for presidential fundraisers.

One would think that people who have decided that commenting on a political blog under their own name isn’t worth the risk of blowback would feel a certain sympathy for a scientist-astronaut who values her privacy deciding not to tell the world she was gay.

Have Americans taken casual wear at the office too far? Most Americans seem to think so.

One gender gap, at least, is narrowing: American men are starting to worry about the size of their butts.

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.