Outside the Beltway

The NSA and FBI are doing more spy stuff.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.

Some people on the left are still trying to convince Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she needs to just step out on the ice floe already.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari took responsibility for the 7-1 loss to Germany.

What could possibly go wrong?

Does the NBA’s best player have first mover advantage? Or should he take his time?

Kickstarting a dream of potato salad to the tune of $40k+

A case out of Louisiana raises serious First Amendment issues.

Things look to be going from bad to worse in Gaza.

Thad Cochran has been officially certified as the winner of the Mississippi GOP Primary Runoff Election, but it’s not over yet.

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

My latest collaboration with Butch Bracknell, “Ahmed Abu Khattala and the Miranda-Rights Question,” has posted in The National Interest.

There’s a declared winner in Afghanistan’s Presidential Election, but a cloud hangs over the results.

All you have to do is make up unique password for each site based on randomly chosen details of an incredibly complex story associated with the first letter of the site.

Political irony, perhaps, but probably less than meets the eye.

There are legitimate issues regarding Presidential overreach and separation of powers that President Obama’s actions while in office have raised. But none of that will be discussed in our hyperpartisan political culture.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.