Outside the Beltway

Former President Bill Clinton says President Obama should ignore the polls and intervene in Syria.

Why won’t the “women don’t get pregnant from rape” meme die?

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

Even if you trust the current occupant of the White House to exercise the powers granted to the agencies operating in secret under him, do you trust all future Presidents?

A George W. Bush renaissance? Not exactly.

Exploring data from 33 years’ of FISA reports to Congress

Without full transcripts, the excerpts released by the House Oversight Committee are worthless.

The ACLU is suing over the NSA’s data mining. Does it really have a chance?

Revelations about the NSA’s data mining programs don’t seem to be having a significant impact on public opinion.

Speaker Boehner seems confident that immigration reform will become law this year, but his confidence may be premature.

The Administration has accepted reality in its fight against a ruling that made the “morning after” pill available regardless of age.

There is only one serious candidate in the race for Frank Lautenberg’s old Senate seat, and he’s got pretty much no chance of winning the election.

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

Then-Lieutenant Wales intervened to prevent a gay trooper from getting beaten by a gang of thugs.

Cory Booker is in the race for New Jersey’s open Senate seat, but is he really unbeatable?

Ronnie Koenig reveals “What Being Editor in Chief of Playgirl Taught Me About Female Desire.”

Just because NSA data mining is legal, that doesn’t mean it’s proper or that the American people should tolerate it.

At what point do science and magic converge? And what are the potential costs?

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

The Governor of Massachusetts decided to celebrate a bit after Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev was captured.

Marco Rubio is threatening to withdraw support for the immigration plan he helped draft, but I would suggest not reading too much into that threat.

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

The TIGTA audit reveals the BOLO “Tea Party” list was right 81% of the time. But does that change anything?

Tax analyst Martin A. Sullivan finds that 1/3rd of “potentially political applications” approved by the IRS were from non-conservative groups.