Outside the Beltway

The Obama White House is not ruling out targeted strikes against Americans inside American territory.

The White House is backing an effort to overturn a bizarre ruled recently enacted by the Library of Congress

The Obama Administration has weighed in on the Supreme Court’s other high profile same-sex marriage case.

Separate, it turns out, is not equal.

A federal judge poses an interesting question in a case over Obama’s contraceptive mandate.

“Who owns Sherlock Holmes?” The answer is . . . complicated.

George Will declares solitary confinement tantamount to torture.

You can go to jail for running afoul of laws you had no way of knowing existed.

The Fourth Amendment got even weaker yesterday.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether limits on contributions to political candidates is Constitutional.

Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come” popularized reggae in America 40 years ago this month.

Olympic paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has been arrested after the fatal shooting of his girlfriend.

It’s easier for your government to kill you than strip you of your citizenship.

A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.

Applications to America’s Law Schools are down, because the nature of the legal profession is changing.

Plus some thoughts on prohibitionist policies (because sometimes a Quick Pick grows in the making).

Since 1877, it has been illegal for unmarried Virginia couples to cohabitate. That may soon change.

A potentially significant ruling on Separation Of Powers.

40 years after Roe v. Wade, support for the decision is still strong, but the effort to restrict it continues apace.

President Obama’s idea of “universal background checks” isn’t nearly as simple as it sounds.

Based on the polls, the odds of some changes to America’s gun control laws will become law. It’s unlikely they’ll accomplish anything, though.

The Russian adoption ban isn’t sitting well with many Russians.

David Gregory committed a technical violation of DC’s gun law to make a point on a national news show. Conservative gun control opponents are angry.

What does it mean to be privileged? It means not having to think about any of this, ever.

Resurrecting and old, and bad, idea.

Could a coin like this solve the looming debt ceiling crisis?

For some reason, Pennsylvania’s Governor has chosen to reopen the wounds from the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

An attempt to declare the filibuster unconstitutional has ended in failure.

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

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