Outside the Beltway

Contrary to President Obama’s assertion today, the NSA’s operations don’t have proper legislative or judicial oversight.

Just because NSA data mining is legal, that doesn’t mean it’s proper or that the American people should tolerate it.

At what point do science and magic converge? And what are the potential costs?

Sadly, this is not surprising.

The government has your cell phone and credit card records. What can they do with that information?

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

The Governor of Massachusetts decided to celebrate a bit after Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev was captured.

Apparently, it’s not just reporters whose phone logs the Obama administration is tracking.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Syria isn’t Libya.

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

President Obama threw down a gauntlet today in the form of a trio of Judicial nominations.

If there’s one thing that our generals and admirals agree on it’s that generals and admirals should retain their power.

The same story yet again.

Chris Beck spent 20 years as a Navy SEAL. Kristen Beck has written a book about her experiences.

Starting today, the fate of Pfc. Bradley Manning is on trial in a courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Republicans have problems with the younger generation that they will need to fix if they’re going to succeed in the future.

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Eric Holder’s testimony before Congress is leading to accusations of perjury, but the argument that he did so seem pretty weak.

Once again, national security wins and privacy loses.

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

The sequestration cuts are two months old, and it seems pretty clear that the claims of doom we heard before they went into effect were heavily exaggerated.

What’s going on in England and Sweden?

Senior DOJ officials from the previous three administrations back the Obama DOJ’s controversial subpoenaing of AP conversations.

Christine Fox, the real-life inspiration for Charlie of “Top Gun,” and the casual sexism of 1985.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

Social scientists take note: the press has gotten bored with Syria, so your data are no longer reliable.

Just how serious was the leak that the Associated Press reported on last May?

A starting point for two important stories.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.