Outside the Beltway

Voter ID laws are a good idea, but we have to be careful in how we implement them.

Did Ronald Reagan’s impending inauguration help get our hostages released after 444 days?

Today, the #stopkony hashtag is trending on Twitter. Here’s why.

Carrol LeFon, better known on the Internet as Neptunus Lex, one of the original milbloggers, has been killed in a fighter jet crash.

The race will go on after Super Tuesday, but the outcome seems ineviable

CWO2 Edward Cantrell, a decorated Special Forces veteran, died trying to save his daughters Isabella and Natalia from a house fire.

Mitt Romney’s Presidential rhetoric probably won’t appeal to the GOP base.

A new poll shows the current level of GOP support in the Hispanic community.

Disturbingly large percentages of Republicans still don’t think the President was born here.

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

Is it fair to single out the most powerful man in radio’s commentary for attention?

Movie theater snacks are expensive. This is not cause for a lawsuit.

That word does not mean what you think it means (at least if you work in the mass media).

There are three and only three circumstances under which a man may wear a bracelet.

The differences between the parties when it comes to Iran are far less substantial than the candidate’s rhetoric would suggest.

Mitt Romney outlines his plan for dealing with Iran.

A new poll shows just how badly the GOP is doing among Hispanic voters.

People are seeing irony where it doesn’t exist.

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

You didn’t think it was over, did you?

Arizona’s senior Senator want’s to bomb Syria.

Mitt Romney is likely to put considerable distance between himself and his opponents tomorrow.

Megan McArdle is taking a break of unspecified length from blogging to “work on another project.” Said project, she hastens to add, is not a baby.

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

Peter Berkowitz has presented a flawed legal argument for attacking Iran.

The New Yorker’s cover has Rick Santorum in a doghouse strapped atop Mitt Romney’s car.

The GOP has sold its soul.

Was Return Of The Jedi the best of all the Star Wars films? One writer thinks so.

Rick Santorum wants to nullify nearly 200,000 marriages.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.

Not a surrender. Not even an apology. Just a tactical retreat.