Outside the Beltway

Republicans are fighting over how best to deal with their demographic problems, but they seem to be fighting the wrong battle.

The State Department tries to scrub information about the 3D-printed gun from the Internet.

Some are criticizing the US government subsidies to Tesla Motors for its Model S electric car, which sells for almost $100,000. Kevin Bullis argues that it’s a smart investment.

A super-secret, super-secure alternative internet has been operating at Los Alamos National Labs for two and a half years.

Pfizer will soon start selling Viagra direct to customers online. Given how much Viagra spam OTB has gotten over the years, I assumed it has always been available online.

Today, LinkedIn celebrates its tenth anniversary. It’s 225 million members are apparently using it as some sort of business network for some purpose.

The world’s first entirely 3-D printed gun is now a reality.

The American people aren’t panicking.

The world oil markets aren’t too far away from being hit by the shock of massively increased demand from China. Somehow, we’ll have to adapt.

The very first page on the World Wide Web, from way back in 1992, is being restored.

Opponents of immigration reform are deceptively attempting to use the bombing attack in Boston to derail immigration reform.

Bill Clinton is on Twitter for reals.

There are far too many appointed positions in the US government. And many of them are unfilled.

Big Brother is watching us. And he may be watching us a lot more after what happened in Boston.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

Most of us suck at driving. Soon, we won’t be allowed to drive.

Alex Madrigal reports that “71% of Facebook Users Engage in ‘Self-Censorship.'” That strikes me as low.

Desktop PC sales fell by nearly 14% in the first quarter, continuing an ongoing trend. There are many reasons this is happening.

Ars Technica introduces us to “nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners.”

Our current approach isn’t working.

Apparently, today’s youth no longer know how to have good sex on account of they’re having too much sex.

In one of the lamer April Fools’ jokes in a while, Twitter has announced Twttr

So what, exactly, is going on in North Korea? And how should we respond to Kim’s bluster?

An American fighting with Syrian rebels faces life in prison for firing an RPG against a government we’re trying to oust.

The economy has been steadily recovering from the Great Recession. But the jobs may never come back.

A new Chrome extension will close all of your tabs and give you a linked list of all your previously open pages.

Passengers may soon be able to use approved electronic devices during all phases of airplane flights.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

The CIA will soon be storing our nation’s most sensitive information with a private company.

The head men of the three most prestigious US national laboratories say the sequester will devastate scientific research in this country for decades to come.