Outside the Beltway

One thing is clear: Maduro lacks Chavez’s political skills.

A rich guy wants to break up California.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been forced out of Kyiv—and possibly out of power entirely.

Veteran newsman Garrick Utley has died from prostate cancer at the age of 74.

Peggy Noonan asks an interesting question.

Yes, the evidence shows you can trust Obama to enforce immigration laws.

A rather impressive recovery from a career that was mostly dead in 2007.

What if the jobless recovery is but the beginning of a trend?

One in ten Army helicopter pilot is a woman, yet men account for 97% of injuries in helicopter accidents.

Lack of understanding or basic dishonesty?

If something is going to be done about an out of control National Security State, it’ll be because the American people demand it.

Ellen Page is gay. So is Michael Sam. Shouldn’t we be aiming for the day when the response to news like this is “So what?”

Refusing to raise the debt ceiling does nothing at all to control spending.

Another Circuit Court finds that the Second Amendment protects a right to carry a weapon in public.

A big setback for the UAW.

They really love their Starbucks at NBC–and not just on “Morning Joe.”

The string of victories for same-sex marriage continues as a Federal Judge rules that the Commonwealth of Kentucky must recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages.

Ted Cruz keeps putting his own party in difficult situations, mostly because he has only his own ambition at heart.

Another victory for marriage equality. This time from the state that gave us the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on interracial marriage.

“It’s complicated” has long been an option to describe one’s romantic status on Facebook. Now, it applies to one’s sex as well.

Snow days are no longer automatic vacation days for federal workers.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

President Obama is rewarding unqualified hacks who raised huge sums for his campaign with ambassadorships.

The Cold War may be over, but the negative opinions in the U.S. regarding Russia and its leadership seem to have continued.

My latest for The National Interest, “The U.S. Military’s Ethics Crisis,” has posted.