Outside the Beltway

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Some musing on guns: who uses them, how, and why.

Americans waste $121 billion a year because of traffic congestion.

In “Managing Mom’s Money,” J.D. Roth relates various credit card scams that are difficult to avoid and impossible to get out of once in.

I joined the Army so I could travel, fight, and go on adventures. Just like Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.

A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.

Does America deserve a day off today because we all stayed up late overindulging?

Samantha Power is leaving the Obama administration to spend more time with her family. No, really.

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace called a controversial NRA claim “ridiculous.”

Christina Hoff Summers argues that America needs to fix the way we educate boys.

Andrew Bacevich bemoans the social impact of the all-volunteer force.

Is America’s focus on defense weakening the country?

At nearly $4 million for a 30 second spot, advertising on the Super Bowl is a bargain.

Auburn’s famed Toomer’s Corner Oaks will be cut down, an acknowledgment that they’ll never be healthy again after an idiot Alabama fan poisoned them.

Really, more evidence he should be ignored in general.

Ross Wilson, former US ambassador to Turkey, says yesterday’s suicide attack on our embassy in Ankara “was no Benghazi.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

The “I” in DIA apparently does not stand for Intelligence.

When someone kills himself after being bullied, we rightly condemn the bully. Should we condemn his victim, too?

January’s Jobs Report wasn’t much to write home about

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

Applications to America’s Law Schools are down, because the nature of the legal profession is changing.