Outside the Beltway

A case study in what’s wrong with the “Breaking News” media.

The number of Pennsylvania voters without required photo IDs exceeds Obama’s 2008 margin of victory.

John Boehner speaks an inconvenient, for Mitt Romney at least, truth.

Looking back on the GOP nomination fight, it’s rather obvious that the media overplayed the idea that there was ever a real race going on.

Joe Paterno’s legacy is likely to take a lasting and damaging hit when a report on Penn State’s handling of the Sandusky mess is released.

The GOP’s arguments about the impact of ObamaCare on Medicare are dishonest and hypocritical.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama traded barbs over the June jobs report, but neither one seems to have the answer to our problems.

The PPACA, the fight over it, and the Sibelius ruling all underscore this fact.

With four months to go until Election Day, the Obama Campaign was greeted with a very dismal jobs report this morning.

Would faith survive the discovery that the central premise of the Bible is a lie?

A recent decision out of Massachusetts threatens to make business quite difficult for online service providers.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

The debate over whether the PPACA’s individual mandate is a “penalty” or a “tax”seems rather pointless.

There are signs out there that people are becoming some what more optimistic about the outlook for the economy.

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

Scientists have made a major step toward unlocking one of the biggest mysteries of particle physics

Supreme Court watchers have been speculating since Sunday night about who might have leaked confidential court information to the press.

There’s very little evidence or logic to support the attacks coming from the right against Chief Justice Roberts.