AP has won round 1 in a case against Meltwater that would severely limit the Fair Use concept in commercial cases.

Ian Ayres argues that we would virtually eliminate the spread of sexually transmitted disease if men would wear a condom the first three times they had sex with a new partner.

The former coach of an American team playing a foreign sport is upset that his foreign-born successor is using foreign-born Americans.

The good people of Montana may soon have expanded dining options.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

The CIA will soon be storing our nation’s most sensitive information with a private company.

The Washington Examiner, which for a while became the conservative alternative to the Washington Post, is ceasing daily publication to become a conservative alternative to The Hill.

A tendency to expand objectives mid-fight has seen America fail in its last four major wars.

Steve Davis, who quarterbacked Oklahoma to back-to-back national titles, died in a plane crash yesterday. He was 60.

All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever.

The head men of the three most prestigious US national laboratories say the sequester will devastate scientific research in this country for decades to come.

The final release of President Lyndon Johnson’s tape recordings reveals a bizarre plot.

President Lyndon Johnson considered flying to the 1968 convention and offering himself up for re-nomination.

A federal judge has ruled National Security Letters violate the First Amendment’s free speech guarantees.

The New York Post reports that Today host Matt Lauer is the leading contender to replace Alex Trebek on Jeopardy.

The D.C. Circuit now has four vacancies out of eleven seats.

With “How the Quiet Car Explains the World,” Ta-Nehisi Coates has become an old white dude.

Chuck Hagel has cemented his legacy as the greatest Secretary of Defense ever.

Longtime blogger Steve Hynd has launched a new group blog called Not The Singularity.

Frustrated Republican health care staffers are leaving the Hill for lucrative positions on K Street.

California’s senior senator comes to the right conclusion through the wrong reasoning.

The Ravens quarterback cashed in after winning the Super Bowl. Now it’s Maryland’s turn.

Much touted snowstorm set the DC area atwitter, only to fall short of expectations and yield derision.

The White House employs calligraphers. And pays them money!

Congress is banding together on a bipartisan basis to fight the greatest problem facing the country: the precedence of the Distinguished Warfare Medal above the Bronze Star.

My latest for The National Interest, “Was Afghanistan Worth It?” takes issue with the Marine commandant’s assessment of that question.

Reminding government employees that they are employees of the government is suddenly controversial.

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About 8.1 percent of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer and nearly 600,000 have “megacommutes” of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles.

Jim Valvano’s famous ESPYs speech was 20 years ago today.

The gambling mogul is self-reporting violations of the law against bribing foreign officials.

A baby born with AIDS eighteen months ago has reportedly been cured.

The anti-communist icon is once again in hot water for making idiotic comments.

Google’s Sergey Brin says swiping a phone feels silly, so we should wear dorky goggles around all day.

Our eggheads isn’t as smart as they thinks.

So, the PowerLine gang experimented with an annoying pre-load survey widget to boost revenue. A certain mustachioed Austrian is not amused.

Ralph Macchio is 51, the same age as Pat Morita was when “The Karate Kid” hit theaters in 1984.

The regime we fought for in Iraq is now aiding the regime we’re fighting against (at least by proxy) in Syria.

Do we ask too much of our leaders?

Bonnie Franklin, star of “One Day At a Time,” has died from pancreatic cancer at 69.

The government of Malaysia paid a lot of money to get some blogs placed at various outlets.

Separate, it turns out, is not equal.

So, whoever approves cover art at Bloomberg BusinessWeek thought this was a good idea.

Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to 10 charges stemming from turning classified documents over to WikiLeaks.

In “‘I Urge You to Drop E67-02’: Course Syllabi by Famous Authors,” Emily Temple collects actual syllabi for college literature courses taught by David Foster Wallace, Katie Roiphe, Zadie Smith, and others.