Outside the Beltway

The Navy’s Blue Angels demonstration team has canceled the rest of its 2013 season in response to budget cuts.

Mother Jones’s recording of a secret McConnell campaign strategy meeting is much less than meets the eye.

The GOP’s decision to filibuster the Senate Gun Control Bill doesn’t make a lot of political sense.

Ars Technica introduces us to “nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners.”

Margaret Thatcher does the Dead Parrot Sketch

Our current approach isn’t working.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

The odds for a party switch in the House of Representatives remain quite low.

The reaction to President Obama’s comments about Kamala Harris raise interesting questions about propriety in the modern world.

A Fox News reporter may go to jail for refusing to reveal a source. Should journalists have an absolute testimonial privilege?

Boneless chicken has been around for decades. The folks at KFC have just discovered it an think they have something special.

A Federal Judge has stepped into a Culture War minefield, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

March’s Jobs Report was nothing to write home about.

My latest for The National Interest, “Hagel’s Three Questions,” ponders our national security decisionmaking.

President Obama says Kamala Harris is “by far the best-looking attorney general in the country.”

One Virginia Republican Member of Congress recently got a lesson in what going against the GOP’s hyperpartisan atmosphere feels like.

Republicans seem to think they need fewer Presidential debates in the 2016 cycle, but it’s unclear how they can make that happen.