Outside the Beltway

Despite a sluggish economy, Americans are flocking to theme parks and spending big bucks to stand in line.

The University of Alabama men’s golf team joins the football, softball, gymnastics, and women’s golf teams as national champions.

Shouldn’t medical advances available in Germany be available in the United States and vice-versa?

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Eric Holder’s testimony before Congress is leading to accusations of perjury, but the argument that he did so seem pretty weak.

The government is changing the way it calculates Gross Domestic Product.

No, the NFL isn’t a non-profit. Yes, it pays massive amounts of taxes.

Jean Stapleton, an accomplished stage and screen actress who achieved entertainment immortality playing opposite Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith, has died at the age of 90:

Once again, national security wins and privacy loses.

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

Kids born to over-35 mothers tend to be taller and thinner.

The insanity of “Zero Tolerance” policies.

New developments in a still very new area of the law.

Apparently, some people don’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.

Mitt Romney returns from the political graveyard.

The Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal of a case in which Indiana’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood had been blocked by a Federal Court.

While most of us buy homeowner’s insurance to protect against storm damage and theft, injuries caused by dogs account for a third of all damage payouts.

The former Republican Senator and current Independent governor has come full circle.

When does politics become the “primary activity” of a 501(c)4?

Apparently, our biggest problem in America is now the name of an NFL franchise.

Virginia’s voters really don’t seem to like their choices for Governor.

Signs and portents in the Middle East.