Outside the Beltway

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

Think Progress continues a silly meme: “12 programs that Congress cares less about than averting flight delays.”

The economy grew in the first quarter of 2013, but the numbers were far from impressive.

Legendary country music singer George Jones has died, aged 81.

A McDonald’s hamburger has been in a man’s car trunk since 1999. It still looks and smells the same as the day he bought it, minus the pickle.

The Examiner’s James Simpson makes a perfectly valid point in the most dishonest way with his chart “Sequester fraud in one picture.”

The Senate moved last night to end the airport delays caused by furloughing air traffic controllers.

Opponents of immigration reform are deceptively attempting to use the bombing attack in Boston to derail immigration reform.

Some on the right are complaining that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was read his Mranda rights too soon.

Bill Clinton is on Twitter for reals.

There are far too many appointed positions in the US government. And many of them are unfilled.

There’s bipartisan agreement on Capitol Hill that they don’t want to participate in ObamaCare.

The CIA unsuccessfully lobbied to put Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the eldest of the Boston Marathon bombers, on the counterterrorism watch list in 2011.

The Senate’s rejection of the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill isn’t particularly outraging the general public, according to a new poll.

General Petreaus is now Dr. Petraeus and will be teaching a 1-1 load a the City University of New York.

My latest for The National Interest, “Why Terrorists Are Worse Than Guns,” has posted.