Outside the Beltway

Japan’s National Debt has reached a level that’s somewhat incomprehensible.

Bob McDonnell is not the first Old Dominion chief executive to supplement their income while in office.

While periodic, strenuous exercise is better than nothing, constant movement is much better for our health.

Jay Porter banned tipping in his high end restaurant and found that customer service and profits improved.

“Say that, in 1993, you were at a bar having some beers with a dolphin” has been nominated and seconded as the “Best opening sentence. EVER.”

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

It may be Rick Santorum’s “turn” but he’s too harsh and extreme to win the nomination.

TheTransportation Security Administration is expanding its purview to train stations and sporting events.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

Alex Rodriguez and 12 other Major League Baseball players were suspended today for PED use. Rodriguez is the only one vowing to fight the suspension.

The Air Force is telling airmen to take common sense steps to “avoid becoming a victim” of sexual assault.

The Pentagon is considering making military retirees ineligible for civil service pensions.

The Air Force will now allow pregnant women and single parents to join.

Congress isn’t spending much time in Washington these days but that’s only one of the reasons it isn’t accomplishing very much.

A business move that signals the continuing death of the newspaper industry.

The Defense Department would like to get a handle on how it spends its money by 2017 but the Navy won’t go along.

In the end, it doesn’t appear that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented by law enforcement.

President Obama is doing precisely what Senator Obama warned us about.

The government contractor that conducted Edward Snowden’s background investigation faces criminal indictment.