Outside the Beltway

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.

What the Haley Barbour situation illustrates is that we, as a country, have not fully accepted or dealt with our own past.

New polling shows that Mitt Romney is well behind the Fox News candidates for 2012.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who may end up running for President in 2012, has reopened wounds that finally seemed like they were closed.

Ohio Congressman Steve Driehaus is suing a pro-life PAC for “defamation” and “loss of livelihood” over its role in his defeat in the 2010 Elections.

The repeal of DADT has resulted in some odd claims being made.

Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.

Now that gays will be allowed to serve openly in the military, the command will have some new issues to address.

150 years ago today a group of men gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and made one of the gravest mistakes in American history. They should not be honored for it.

Is Sarah Palin really against child nutrition? Or just taking cheap shots at Michelle Obama?

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

UCSD grad student Mark Farrales is a good example of why something like the DREAM Act has merit.

More on the question of health care and free markets.

What’s up with McCain and DADT?

The repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is a sign that the political ground is shifting. Will the GOP take notice?

How likely are more sweeping health care reforms in the US? Not very likely at all.

The Congress has passed a repeal of DADT.

The 20th Amendment was supposed to eliminate lame duck sessions, but it didn’t.

Did we have a free market in health care prior to the passage of PPACA? No.

Fed examiners made a bank take down a “Merry Christmas, God With Us” sign. Then the “system” kicked in.

Castro banned “Sicko” for fear that ordinary Cubans would be up in arms seeing facilities that are not available to the vast majority of them.

The new health care law’s individual mandate was the subject of another bruising court battle yesterday, but the real question in the room was what, if any, are the limits on Congressional authority?

Could Congress limit abortion via an onerous tax?

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year 2010.

According to two new polls, Sarah Palin has absolutely no chance of beating Barack Obama in 2012. So, why does it look like she’s going to run anyway?