Outside the Beltway

The DOMA cases are about issues of equal treatment under the law, not about stopping some utopia where all kids have a traditional household.

Jim Valvano’s famous ESPYs speech was 20 years ago today.

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

Once again, Utah’s former Governor is making sense.

Pope Benedict XVI explains that he’s just too sick and tired to stay on as pontiff.

Once again, it seems necessary to debunk some commonly believed myths about polling.

America’s Protestants are dying off and being replaced by non-believers.

Sacrificing our principles in the face of mob violence is never a good idea.

President Obama’s remarks before the United Nations were, at least in one particular part, disappointing.

The Obama Administration’s response to the protests in the Muslim world has been entirely wrongheaded.

Apparently, questioning someone who may have violated their probation on the way to contributing to a series of international incidences is a major civil liberties violation.

Capitulating to a mob is never a good idea.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

The career of Larry Schwartz, who is the Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Cairo, is over.

Senator Rand Paul suggests the GOP may want to reconsider its foreign policy aggressiveness.

My latest for The National Interest, “Freedom of Speech and Religion in Egypt and Libya,” has posted.

For some reason, Paul Ryan decided to talk about school prayer this weekend.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was sounding more like Rick Santorum than himself.

What should have been a simple parliamentary procedure, conducted under President Obama’s orders no less, turned into something of an embarrassment.