Outside the Beltway

To some extent, we seem to be becoming overprotective.

That ball is in your court, Congress.

Led by Speaker John Boehner, Republican leaders are trying to placate calls for impeachment.

‘The Decision’ is undecided.

Iraq continues to fall apart.

John Boehner’s latest political move is designed mostly to appease the GOP base, but it’s likely a non-starter from a legal point of view.

The US intelligence community is gambling that it can be more efficient through a public-private partnership than going it alone.

The number of uninsured Americans has declined since the Obamacare mandate went into effect.

In the end, the separatists in eastern Ukraine have always been expendable as far as Vladimir Putin is concerned.

Trying to make sense of a very complicated issue.

The current Congress is on course to be the least productive in decades.

Assuming it accepts the appeal, Utah is giving the Supreme Court its high profile case for the October 2015 Term.

Judging by the early results, the so-called “Right To Be Forgotten” recently created by Europe’s highest court is creating more problems than it will solve.

The law’s insane over-reaction to teen “sexting” has gotten even more insane in one Virginia County.

The NSA and FBI are doing more spy stuff.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.

Some people on the left are still trying to convince Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she needs to just step out on the ice floe already.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari took responsibility for the 7-1 loss to Germany.

What could possibly go wrong?

Does the NBA’s best player have first mover advantage? Or should he take his time?

Kickstarting a dream of potato salad to the tune of $40k+

A case out of Louisiana raises serious First Amendment issues.

Things look to be going from bad to worse in Gaza.

Thad Cochran has been officially certified as the winner of the Mississippi GOP Primary Runoff Election, but it’s not over yet.

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

My latest collaboration with Butch Bracknell, “Ahmed Abu Khattala and the Miranda-Rights Question,” has posted in The National Interest.