Outside the Beltway

The title of most impressive Heisman winner of all time goes to Pete Dawkins, who won the award in 1958.

Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy last night, becoming the first “freshman” to do so.

Another week, another innocent person killed by an NFL player.

George Zimmerman’s attorneys have filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC News.

What Crist demonstrates about the US party system.

Pennsylvania Republicans want to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

A outline of a deal both sides could live with.

Charlie Crist, run out of the Republican Party, is now a Democrat.

Blake Hounshell finds the footnotes in Andy Carvin’s latest book somewhat amusing:

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

Somebody drove a car into a McDonald’s in DC’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, prompting Ryan Lizza to quip, “This time Michelle Obama’s gone too far.”

The Air Force has a leadership crisis.

Why the bureaucratic tyrants at the FDA regulate your yuletide drinks.

The truth behind today’s unemployment numbers.

Kobe Bryant is one of only five NBA players to score 30,000 points and the youngest to achieve the milestone.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

Will your Yelp review land you in court?

Want to teach political science for a living? Go to one of a handful of top schools or don’t bother.

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies.

Congress is trying to re-write a law that the Supreme Court found unconstitutional in June. Have they succeeded?

NATO has agreed to deploy Patriot missiles along the Turkey-Syria border to protect Turkish airspace and territory, while making clear no escalation is intended.

In a show of marketing savvy that put Detroit where it is, Lincoln is rebranding itself as Lincoln.

It seems that FreedomWorks is imploding in the wake of Dick Armey’s sudden resignation.

The New York Post splashed the photo of a man pushed in front of a train on their cover.