Outside the Beltway

What do this people want? Can’t you read the signs?

Unnamed “sources” claim that ACORN is somehow behind Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots.

Occupy Wall Street is not motivated by envy of the rich or even animus towards banks.

Dwayne Kennedy will spend 5 more years in prison for using a cell phone to call his family to tell them he’d been paroled.

Google+ was supposed to be a Facebook killer. If their social media icons are any indication, it’s not happening.

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

Foie gras will soon be illegal in California, so some are indulging as much as possible now.

A plan to clean the park at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been postponed.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. believes the Congress is “in rebellion” and therefore President Obama should exercise extraordinary constititutional means” to implement a massive jobs plan.

Even those sympathetic to the causes are frustrated with the squalor and other negative externalities of the protests.

Damage from starting one’s career during a recession can persist over one’s entire working life.

I will appearing on “Power Play with Chris Stirewalt” on Fox News Live this morning discussing America’s ten years in Afghanistan and other topics.

Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) took to the floor yesterday to lambaste Grover Norquist and his influence over the GOP.

A major backer of Republican and Libertarian causes is under fire.

A meme is emerging that the Occupy Wall Street protests are America’s version of the Arab Awakening. That meme must die.

Parents are being arrested for sending their children to public schools outside their district.

A consultant for would-be academics, says she wouldn’t have a job if professors would do theirs.

Rezwan Ferdaus, an American Muslim, has been charged with a major terrorist plot against his country.

62 percent of 21-year-olds aren’t in college.

Debating proposed changes to the US military’s retirement system.

Texas is ending the time-honored tradition of allowing condemned men to pick their last meal before being put to death.

Paul Krugman seems to believe that something like the bubble economy we enjoyed until it burst in 2008 could be had again if only our leaders were sufficiently bold.

Is there a trade-off in being polite?

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

Derek Thompson argues that “the real reason Americans fell so squeezed” is our obsession with productivity.

KARK weatherman Brett Cummins was asleep in a bathtub with a dead man wearing a dog collar lying next to him.

Government workers are among society’s favorite whipping boys. Why?

Hurricane Irene has been much, much less severe than heralded.

Why Big Army has trouble with small wars.

A Navy board of inquiry consisting of three admirals has voted to keep Captain Owen Honors, who was relieved as captain of the Enterprise, on active duty.

Two cases in the news today raise questions about the NFL commissioner’s power.

Michelle needs to stop buying shoes–but Barack’s keeping his golf clubs.

When one adopts a one-word pseudo-elfin name, one might expect a spot of trouble

Political journalists are asking clumsy, ignorant, and intolerant questions. Film at 11.

America’s pundits have never met anyone who didn’t think Tim Pawlenty would be a good nominee.

The First Lady takes a lot of days off from her unpaid “job.”

Is S&P’s downgrade of the US bond rating “free speech” and thereby protected by the Constitution?

Dan Drezner believes those worrying that we’re seeing the global meltdown of 2008 repeat itself are kidding themselves.

The second round of the rolling Wisconsin recall elections was held yesterday. The Republicans are still in charge.

The 30-year bond has actually gained more than a point in early trading after the S&P downgrade!

Upon further review, S&P’s downgrade of the United States bond rating . . . still makes no sense.

iPad games, on the other hand, are like someone you meet in a bar and find yourself screwing in the bathroom 10 minutes later. This is not a criticism.

A take on the conflict that’s probably different from the one you’ve been reading.

A European anti-Muslim blogger observes, ‘It is clear that Anders Behring Breivik is one of us.'”