Outside the Beltway

The Feds fired Monster and now USAJobs is a disaster

A new patent granted to Apple raises once again the question of how far patent protections should extend.

Finding a job gets harder when businesses discover they don’t need to hire as many people as they used to.

Professional baseball players are wearing magical necklaces whose “titanium nanoparticles” supposedly “help the body’s own energy flow more readily.”

A cute protest sign based on a blog quip has created a minor internet sensation.

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

After years of fighting inflation, some are now urging the Fed to instead target GDP growth and jobs.

California’s Governor has vetoed a bill that would have reversed a very misguided decision by that state’s Supreme Court.

The British government has worked out a deal to block pornographic websites unless households specifically request them.

The apple logo with Steve Jobs’ profile instead of the bite mark is going viral.

Parents are being arrested for sending their children to public schools outside their district.

In a shot across the bow of the current publishing model, Princeton is requiring professors to retain rights to their published work so that it may be freely distributed.

The conspiracy by grocery store owners to turn us all into unpaid cashiers may be ending.

Another round of rumors is out claiming that Chris Christie is thinking about running for President.

Rick Santorum is tired of “filth” atop Google searches for his name and wants the company to do something about it.

The decision to split Netflix into two companies makes no sense. Unless you look behind the scenes.

In a truly bizarre move, Netflix is spinning off the DVD-by-mail business that built them into an international brand and going stream-only. Those wishing to keep getting movies will have to sign on to something called Qwikster.

Paul Krugman seems to believe that something like the bubble economy we enjoyed until it burst in 2008 could be had again if only our leaders were sufficiently bold.

Ivar Giaever, the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, has resigned from the American Physical Society over its declaration that “global warming is occurring” and that “the evidence is incontrovertible.”

The Hoover Institution’s Henry I. Miller, MD takes to National Review to take on the subject of “Gardasil and the GOP.”

In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will examine the question whether police can track people via GPS without first obtaining a warrant.

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

America is discovering that throwing money at an industry in the hope it will create jobs doesn’t work.

Governor, that analogy does not mean what you think it means.

Derek Thompson argues that “the real reason Americans fell so squeezed” is our obsession with productivity.

The Solyndra case is a classic example of what’s wrong with “government investment.”

The idea that students raised in the Information Age are therefore savvy about information is a dangerous but pervasive myth.

Contrary to myth, the college classroom is a rapidly evolving place.

The Western fetish for turning cheap, efficient food into expensive, inefficient fuel is threatening the food supply–as is the European superstition against genetically modified foods.

The failure of a solar energy firm in California is raising questions about a centerpiece of the Administration’s economic policy.

Arthur C. Clarke predicts the future on a 1964 BBC Horizon program.

How hard is it to schedule one measly jobs speech?

Tim Cook is succeeding Steve Jobs as head of the world’s biggest technology company. Does it matter that he’s gay?

Details of the President’s jobs plan are starting to leak out, and they’re not looking impressive.