Outside the Beltway

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

The Pentagon is frustrated that the Obama administration doesn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do.”

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

Standard & Poor’s didn’t believe the Obama Administration’s argument that Washington would be able to fix the deficit. There’s no reason they should have.

Barack Obama dressed as a pirate

One can almost hear the pitter-patter of American boots in the distance.

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

Mobile homes account for nearly half of all tornado deaths in the United States.

What ever became of Private Robert H. Lister of the 165th Infantry?

The CIA has declassified the last six documents from the World War One era.

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

Dave Schuler’s a hard man to rile. But stay away from him on tax day.

According to a new poll, the American public still isn’t sold on the idea of cutting entitlements to cut the budget deficit.

President Obama is vulnerable, but he’s facing a GOP field that is underwhelming even for Republicans.

More on that freeloader problem (today with less snark).

On Palm Sunday, French Christians stormed a museum and slashed Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ

Charles Krauthammer called Donald Trump the “Al Sharpton” of the GOP presidential primary contest

The Independent allows creative versions of the URLs on their stories.

A Pentagon investigation was unable to verify some of the comments attributed to General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone last year. That doesn’t mean he’s been cleared, though.