Outside the Beltway

The internal debate in the Republican Party over the tax cut extension deal with President Obama is serving as a preview of some of the battles that may erupt during the race for the party’s nomination in 2012.

There’s plenty of good news for Barack Obama in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

A woman in California has filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s because she is apparently unable to resist her child’s incessant demands for a Happy Meal.

Since when is working the week before Christmas sacrilege?

The battle over the individual mandate is really just nothing more than the latest round in a batter that has been ongoing for 221 years.

Are Marco Rubio, Haley Barbour, and Mike Huckabee the favorites to win the White House?

The incoming House Republicans aren’t making a good first impression.

Americans’ assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job.

A new poll shows that the American public is discontented, nervous about the economy, not entirely sure they can trust the new GOP majority in Congress, and has no idea what it wants from Washington. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

More on the No Labels label problem.

A Federal Appeals Court in Ohio has handed down what could become a landmark ruling in the application of the 4th Amendment to the Internet.

Has anyone told Mike Bloomberg that “No Labels” is, well, a label?

One simple proposal on the size of the House of Representatives.

Despite yesterday’s victory for opponents of the Affordable Care Act, the prospects in the Supreme Court are not good.

Joe Miller lost the Alaska Senate election by more than 10,000 votes but he’s still fighting.

Is Congress too small and unequal to do its job?

One of the most active American diplomats of the past twenty-five years has passed away.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows and, when it comes to the debate over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, anti-tax Republicans are making common cause with soak-the-rich progressives.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has handed the first legal defeat to the President’s health care reform package.

Yes, a federal judge has ruled the individual mandate to be unconstitutional. However, this issue is hardly settled yet.

The weekend arrest of a Columbia University Professor for an apparently consensual act raises some interesting questions about why precisely a specific act should be subject to criminal prosecution.

John Boehner’s whining about being called a “hostage taker” by President Obama is reminiscent of Newt Gingrich’s whining about being “snubbed” on Air Force One.

Inspired by the reaction to the Julian Assange case, a feminist writer proposes dangerous changes to American rape laws.

Columbia political science professor David Epstein has been charged with a 3-year incestuous relationship with his adult daughter.