Outside the Beltway

One of the iconic speeches in American history is copyrighted.

The history of what to call the American Civil War.

My latest for The National Interest, “Clapper’s Bodyguard of Lies,” has posted.

Sailors will now be required to wait until 9 am to buy booze.

Down in Alabama, the Stupid Party is being particularly stupid.

A lot of new jobs are being advertised but not many people are being hired to fill them. Peter Orszag doesn’t know why.

Some conservatives don’t seem too troubled by Vladimir Putin’s repression.

The Attorney General wants to fight the war on drugs less stupidly.

The Pentagon is considering doing away with two combatant commands—and no longer calling them combatant commands.

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.

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

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 will now allow pregnant women and single parents to join.

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

The president’s 2008 rival has gone from bitter foe to go-to deal broker.

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Congress really, really wants to give soldiers a 1.8 percent pay raise. Generals are begging them to hold it to 1 percent.

Army Staff Sergeant Ty Carter will be the fifth living recipient of the Medal of Honor from the Afghanistan-Iraq era.

ABC News selectively edited their interview with Juror B29 to give a false impression of what she said.

Conservatives are doing what they criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

The US Postal Service is struggling to make delivery more efficient.

The AHA is calling for a six-year embargo of history dissertations.

Apparently, there was a culture clash at the Grey Lady.

George Zimmerman is back in the news, this time for saving life rather than taking it.

As Congress eyes the Defense budget for cuts, some are drawing attention to the lavish housing of our top brass.

The United States has far and away the most capable navy on the planet. But it’s not very capable at the moment.

Would your cable bill be cheaper if you could just subscribe to the channels you wanted to watch?

The president says we should honor Trayvon Martin by preventing similar tragedies in the future.

The jury likely got it right. That doesn’t mean George Zimmerman didn’t kill Trayvon Martin or that Martin deserved to die.

The Defense Department will freeze promotions, cut workers, and suspend training in the face of across-the-board funding cuts.

Certain aspects of Egyptian civic life have improved rapidly in the wake of the military coup, raising at least some questions about the events leading up to it.

On the eve of transition to solo operations, Afghan forces can’t do basic logistical functions.

The drip, drip, drip in Richmond is turning into a flood.

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting piece out today in the Columbia Law Review.

The prominent media critic will no longer bother criticizing CNN for not living up to the standards of the profession.

June’s Jobs Report was healthy, but the economy still needs to do better.

Liberal leaders want Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire so President Obama can appoint her successor. She wants to hang around another decade.

Contemporary Americans accept actions by the state that were once the cause for revolt.

Yesterday’s coup in Egypt, a day before we celebrate our own independence, reminds us of something else worth celebrating.