Outside the Beltway

The Washington Wizards have gone back to the future with new uniforms that look remarkably like the old Washington Bullets unis.

Hockey star Sean Avery’s recent statements supporting gay marriage has drawn fire from an unlikely source: His agent.

Christopher Hitchens is losing his voice. He misses it.

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

Babies “R” Us sells defective, dangerous products. Do not shop there.

The rebel and onion armies showed grose negligence by having many of their battles right inside national parks, like Gettysburg.

Erick Erickson questions Jon Huntsman’s loyalty to America.

Gingrich 2012: He will always love America. Unless it gets cancer.

Boehner wants some pretty big cuts in exchange for a vote on raising the debt ceiling.

The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have announced their separation after 25 years of marriage.

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

Pakistan is trying to explain how the world’s most wanted man was able to hide in plain sight for six years, and failing badly.

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?

New rules for the 2012 primary open the door for a Tea Party candidate to take the GOP nomination.

David Brooks declares Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, and Jon Huntsman the only serious candidates for the Republican nomination.

The state of Arizona is seeking donations for construction of the border fence.

One U.S. Senator wants to bring elements of the TSA’s security theater to America’s rail system.

A Texas high school student who was kicked off her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to cheer for her rapist had her lawsuit dismissed as frivolous and was ordered to pay $45,000 in legal fees.

Local newspapers in Belgium inexplicably don’t want to be linked by Google and are using copyright law rather than a robots.txt file to enforce their wishes.

George Will reflects on turning 70.

Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.

Santorum has an interesting theory about the decline of great powers.

Birtherism dies a quick death–and with it the notion that Obama’s opponents are motivated purely by race.

Sunday’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden was the latest example of how Twitter has become the go-to source for “Breaking News.”

The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs this the Greatest Front Page Ever: A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness is sealsed with a kiss: Osama bin Laden is dead”