Outside the Beltway

160 million girls are “missing” owing to selective abortion and cultural preferences for male children.

Jack Kirby’s heir are trying to posthumously renegotiate half-century old deals with Marvel.

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

Australia’s ABC News has video smuggled out by an activist showing widespread famine in North Korea, including filthy children begging in the streets and evidence that even soldiers are not getting enough to eat.

A Tea Party favorite gets asked a tough question,and a Fox News host finds himself forced to apologize.

Sunday afternoon musings on an electoral college sweeps.

The passage of a new same-sex marriage law has Democrats talking about Andrew Cuomo.

Is Gaddafi offering a way out?

The normally loquacious Chávez has been almost silent since emergency surgery in Cuba on June 10th.

Should President Obama do whatever General Petraeus wants in Afghanistan?

If someone had given me ten guesses as to the biggest electricity hog in my house, I’d have never guessed it: The set-top box that houses my DirecTV signal and DVR.

The first Des Moines Register poll is out.

While the Constitutionality of the War Powers Act is indeed dubious, the fact that it was passed over Nixon’s veto isn’t the reason.

A setback for Planned Parenthood opponents.

A victory for marriage equality in the Empire State.

On paper, Jon Huntsman looks like a great General Election candidate. The problem is it seems impossible for him to win the GOP nomination.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Congress had a chance to send a strong message to the Executive Branch today. They failed.

We got out of the hospital yesterday afternoon and are resuming something approaching our new normal now.

Ppartisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge. This is a bad sign for the Republic.

Gene Weingarten is not a fan of journalists building a brand.

Florida Today’s Jeff Parker offers this take on President Obama’s Afghanistan “drawdown,” which will culminate in getting American forces down to Bush era levels by the end of 2012.

President Obama came close to endorsing same-sex marriage last night, but stopped short yet again

How many Texas politicians does it take to screw in a non-communist light bulb?

A few Republicans have picked up on John McCain’s criticism of critics of the Libya mission as being “isolationist.”