Outside the Beltway

The odds that any of the Senators who voted no on Manchin/Toomey will pay a political price for doing so is low.

“Mark Sanford walked out on us, violated our trust … maybe Mark Sanford should just keep walking.”

The filibuster is now so commonplace that it’s baked into the expectations.

Famous people may die sooner than the rest of us. Then again, they may not.

Today is the 75th anniversary of Superman.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

Gabby Giffords writes an emotional diatribe filled with non sequiturs that does nothing to advance the debate.

Prominent female athletes have been able to be openly gay for decades. Why can’t their male counterparts?

As many as 15 are dead and more than 160 injured after a West, Texas fertilizer plant exploded.

If you expose your breasts in rural Georgia but have a penis, jailers are liable to think you’re a dude and make fun of you.

The events in Boston on Monday were tragic, but there was one shining success.

The politics of gun control is not nearly as easy as its supporters believe it to be.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

You can either have a career in a white shoe law firm or marry a military officer. Pick one.

Most of us suck at driving. Soon, we won’t be allowed to drive.

There’s a very simple reason why gun control is stalling in Congress despite its popularity in the polls.

America’s largest theater chain has slashed the hours of thousands of workers to stay under the ObamaCare threshold.

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

Peter Bergen says government crackdowns since the Oklahoma City and 9/11 attacks have made getting bomb making materials harder.

There’s a lot we still don’t know about what happened in Boston, so maybe it’s time to stop speculating.

Alex Madrigal reports that “71% of Facebook Users Engage in ‘Self-Censorship.'” That strikes me as low.

We shouldn’t overreact. But we shouldn’t fool ourselves either: We’re not safe.

A former Navy SEAL charges that Blackwater snipers killed American citizens in New Orleans during Katrina’s aftermath.

Chuck Hagel has countermanded his predecessor and canceled the Distinguished Warfare Medal.