Outside the Beltway

A case from Missouri provides an excellent example of why it matters that states forbid people who love each other from being married.

Whether in the blogosphere or on television, people are increasingly only accessing sources of news and opinion that confirm their pre-conceived ideas.

Social conservatives are seeing their clout slip away, but there’s not much they can do about it.

The Senate looks like it’s about ready to take up a bipartisan immigration reform package.

The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.

Revisiting an old posting of mine on the subject.

Officials in the Japanese city of Yokohama mistakenly announced the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter.

I’ve got my differences with Charlie Schumer and Joe Manchin. But there’s no need to call names.

Many of our cabinet secretaries are independently wealthy.

My latest for The National Interest, “It’s Not Too Soon to Tell,” has posted.

The Navy’s Blue Angels demonstration team has canceled the rest of its 2013 season in response to budget cuts.

Mother Jones’s recording of a secret McConnell campaign strategy meeting is much less than meets the eye.

The GOP’s decision to filibuster the Senate Gun Control Bill doesn’t make a lot of political sense.

Ars Technica introduces us to “nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners.”

Margaret Thatcher does the Dead Parrot Sketch

Our current approach isn’t working.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

The odds for a party switch in the House of Representatives remain quite low.

The reaction to President Obama’s comments about Kamala Harris raise interesting questions about propriety in the modern world.

A Fox News reporter may go to jail for refusing to reveal a source. Should journalists have an absolute testimonial privilege?