Outside the Beltway

The IDF has finally put a woman in command of a battalion. They’re decades behind American forces.

One of the dumbest rules in sports may mean that people in three cities can’t see their teams play this weekend.

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

Another Federal District Court ruling on the Constitutionality of the NSA’s data mining program, this time more favorable to the NSA.

The era of the electric car isn’t likely to arrive for a long time, if ever.

In a new interview, Edward Snowden explains his motives for absconding from the country with NSA secrets.

Newly disclosed details about the US role in Colombia.

Scientists have discovered that heterosexual men alter their behavior around women.

A bunch of people talking on cellphones during a plane flight would annoy the heck out of me, but the government shouldn’t be involved in deciding if it should be allowed.

A potentially big legal setback for a big National Security Agency program.

No previously published works have entered the US Public Domain since 1978. And none are scheduled to enter until 1923. So what are we missing?

In an ordinary post-recession world, we wouldn’t need to talk about extended unemployment benefits, but times are far from ordinary.

Not surprisingly, Time’s editors chose Pope Francis as Person Of The Year. However, Edward Snowden arguably would have been the better choice.

Nobel physicist Peter Higgs says he could not make it in academia today.

Technology is about the way you order in your local restaurant.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

Some signs from Silicon Valley seem to indicate that the heady days of the 90s Tech Bubble are returning.

Another conflict between the Obama Administration and a news media that is frustrated about the extent they are being controlled by being refused access.

Once again, some groups in Texas are trying to block approval of a science textbook because it is too deferential to Evolution.

Imagine all these people talking on the cellphones during a long flight, or even a short one.

The mounting troubles of the PPACA continue.

As expected, the enrollment numbers for Obamacare are far below where they were expected to be.

Time-lapse video of Sunday’s solar eclipse of the moon as seen from Key West

The latest revelations about National Security Agency surveillance outside the United States have caused quite an uproar overseas.

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

The good folks at The Guardian wonder, “Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?”

The bad roll out of the Affordable Care Act is starting to lead to calls for delays in enforcement of the law.

Jofi Joseph was unmasked as the obnoxious @NatSecWonk and fired by the White House.

Should states have the right to ban affirmative action? The Supreme Court will decide that this term.

Why the federal government is so bad at information technology and getting worse by the day.

The Supreme Court heard argument in a major campaign finance case yesterday.