Outside the Beltway

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

The Obama campaign told a few fibs in its effort to distance itself from a controversial Priorities USA ad.

The combination of falling oil prices and increased exports has the US trade deficit at its lowest point since December 2010.

In my adult memory, the American South was a one-party Democratic region for all but presidential elections. Aside from minority set-aside districts, the reversal is near complete.

The recent call by many on the right for Mitt Romney to select Paul Ryan as his running mate is puzzling.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

Romney’s new ad on a ruling issued by HHS on welfare-to-work requirements doesn’t pass the smell test.

Rob Portman, Bob McDonnell, and Brian Sandoval yield the biggest Electoral College advantage.

Mitt Romney continues to have serious problems getting people to like him.

Storing all your data in the cloud isn’t necessarily a good idea.

A Pro-Obama SuperPAC is out with what may be the most despicable ad so far this election cycle.

Harry Reid is a scoundrel, not a hero.

Once again, people are demanding to see Barack Obama’s college transcripts for no good reason.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

The war in Afghanistan has not been a topic of discussion in the Presidential campaign, but that’s largely because there’s not much left to talk about.

While Washington dithers, business owners are starting to worry.

Drudge Report says Team Obama thinks CIA Director David Petraeus will be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

An object lesson in bureaucracy and the reason why infrastructure projects aren’t as easy to complete as some think.

Calvin Broadus is dropping the “Snoop Dog” moniker and rap for “Snoop Lion” and reggae.

What if things don’t ever get better?

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

Nick Delpopolo has been banned from the Olympics for testing positive for cannabis, which he claims came from unwittingly eating a marijuana-laced brownie.

Cover Girl model Marlen Esparza was the first American woman to win an Olympic boxing match.

One year ago, the U.S. lost it’s AAA credit rating with S&P. There doesn’t appear to have been any real impact from that decision.