Outside the Beltway

Republicans are about to take a walk along the third-rail of American politics.

The saga of accused Wikileaks conspirator Bradley Manning continues to get uglier, with the military acknowledging that he was forced to spend the day naked for, well, no apparent reason.

Much like the buds starting to appear on the Cherry Blossom trees in Washington, D.C., February’s jobs report offers some signs of new life for the labor market.

An update on Tunisia.

James Franco is a film director, screenwriter, painter, author, performance artist and actor. And working on a PhD at Yale.

Mike Huckabee channels Dan Quayle when he decides to comment on the pregnancy of Oscar winner Natalie Portman.

Two new polls reflect the extent to which public attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed dramatically over the past twenty years, and it’s only a matter of time before that’s reflected in the law.

Mike Huckabee apologized for saying Barack Obama grew up in Kenya, explaining only that he meant that the president isn’t a Real American.

Judge Roger Vinson stayed his own ruling in the Florida ObamaCare lawsuit today and acted to speed up the appellate process, but not by much.

As the standoff in Wisconsin drags on, there is no sign that the public accepts the argument being made about public sector unions by Governor Scott Walker and other Republicans.

More evidence of what we already knew: the public isn’t especially interested in cutting entitlements.

Video of “An experiment to see the effects of installing every major upgrade version of windows, in order, on the same machine.”

Pfc. Bradley Manning faces twenty-two new charges, including one that could put him before a firing squad, but investigators still can’t prove any direct links between him and Wikileaks.

Northwestern’s Human Sexuality course includes a naked woman being brought to orgasm with a dildo.

A day after apologizing for an odd comment about the President’s upbringing, Mike Huckabee now feeds into the conservative myth that Barack Obama isn’t a real American.

The United States Army is radically redesigning its physical fitness test.

At what point does the legitimate right to demonstrate cross the line into infringing on the rights of others?

Intervening to “help” the Libyan revolt is very tempting, but it’s a temptation we ought to resist.

Critics of Barack Obama’s foreign policy should engage his actual policies — not policies that don’t actually exist.

The Supreme Court rules that “offensiveness” does not trump the First Amendment. And they’re right.

Speaking before Congress yesterday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke debunked the assertion that the GOP’s relatively modest $61 billion spending cut package would significantly harm economic growth.

It’s not the size of your government that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.

Establishing a no-fly zone isn’t likely to be enough to remove the current Libyan regime from power.

Americans had it so much better in the 1950s, right?

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The privitization of Federal helium reserves is a textbook example of the damage to the nation that can be caused by imprudent budget cutting.

Sometimes the most sensible result can be the hardest to reach. This isn’t one of those times.