Outside the Beltway

Did NBC’s David Gregory violate D.C. law on Sunday?

Sharing some thoughts and soliciting feedback on what the 2nd amendment means.

Stony Brook finance prof Noah Smith writes, “The Single Best Anti-Gun-Death Policy? Ending the Drug War.”

Obsessive media coverage makes us believe mass shootings are far more common than they actually are.

Is it good to live in a world where news of a massacre can travel around the world in an instant?

Almost a decade ago, Roger Ebert wondered if making mass murderers famous doesn’t provide a perverse incentive.

Apparent tragedy at a Connecticut Elementary School.

George Zimmerman’s attorneys have filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC News.

A Bangladeshi man was arrested yesterday in New York for an apparent plot to bomb Federal Buildings. The entire plot was an FBI sting operation.

Our War On Drugs is having a disastrous impact on our neighbors to the south, and they’re starting to notice.

When it comes to issues like medical marijuana, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are reading from the same playbook.

A 44-year-old Montana man went into traffic dressed as Bigfoot. It did not end well.

Will an MRI of your brain someday be able to tell if you’re lying? And, if it can, should it be admissible in Court?

The fact that yesterday’s shooting at the Empire State Building resulted in nine civilians being injured by police bullets raises several questions.

A corner has ruled the death of a handcuffed man in the back of a Jonesboro, AR police cruiser was a suicide. Needless to say, questions remain.

Entirely unsurprisingly, the shooting at the Family Research Center’s office in Washington, D.C. is already being politicized.