Outside the Beltway

Rick Santorum is upset that a Google search for his name produces a string of unflattering material. You should be, too.

The next-generation iPhone 5 is rumored to have a 4 inch screen and even a slide-out keypad.

The in-dash CD player is being rapidly phased out.

We now have most of the world’s information right at our fingertips. But we’re not necessarily getting smarter.

Why does Hermione Granger go to the library instead of just Googling it?

Do conservatives believe in evolution and global warming?

Why on earth are we still using coin operated parking meters when our highest value coin in actual use can only buy you seven and a half minutes of parking?

The events in Egypt have led some to ask if the mere act of cutting off access to the Internet is, in itself, an human rights violation.

Twenty-five years ago today, the American space program came crashing to Earth in a horrible accident.

The post-Sputnik innovation wave was sparked by government investment, not the entrepreneurial spirit.

Mike Tanier of Football Outsiders explain why Aaron Rodgers’ ranking as the best quarterback in NFL history is absurd.

Was the 2011 SOTU a blatant rip-off of past speeches? Or simply banal?

What happened to the 15 million jobs that were supposed to be created in the past 10 years but weren’t?

Google no longer needs adult supervision.

Pedestrian fatalities are up. Experts blame Michelle Obama.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

People find the most interesting ways to justify something that is obviously wrong.

The political firestorm that has erupted in the wake of the shootings in Arizona is drifting, inevitably, into calls for more government control over the content of speech.

The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology.

A Michigan man faces five years in prison for reading his wife’s email.

Despite federal laws banning even prison officials from bringing phones inside, tens of thousands of inmates have smartphones.

Republicans are renaming three House committees, including bring back Ethics and taking out Labor.

Contrary to current conservative talking points, Net Neutrality is not a nefarious government scheme to takeover the Internet, but is aimed to address a real problem. Like most ideas that involve the government, though, it doesn’t really address the real source of the problem; not enough freedom

Younger users are moving away from email as a way to communicate with others, and toward more instant forms of communication like text messaging and Twitter.

So, Kodak is suing Shutterfly because it claims to have invented the idea of putting pictures on the Internet.

The Federal Communications Commission is using a statute from the 1930s to try to regulate the technology of the 21st Century. It’s a mistake.