Outside the Beltway

A fatal car crash on a country road in Northern Virginia has become part of the national debate on over illegal immigration.

When I saw Esquire’s headline, “A Rather Strange Conversation with William Shatner,” my thought was, Is there any other kind?

Drinking a beer every mile during a half marathon isn’t as good an idea as it sounds.

Not surprisingly, there is a great deal of disparity in terms of development on the two sides of the US-Mexican border.

The Democrats are pulling a trick from the Reagan playbook for the fall campaign. They might want to rethink that.

Google now lets you sign in to multiple accounts in a single browser.

The FBI is mad that Wikipedia has published a copy of its seal on their site.

Senate Republicans want to rethink the 14th Amendment’s automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.

In arguing against lifting liability caps on offshore drilling, the Wall Street Journal is arguing against both moral responsibility and the free market.

As the campaign in Kentucky heats up for the final sprint to November, Rand Paul seems to have succeeded in moving beyond many of the mis-steps that plagued him three months ago.

Andrew Sullivan welcomes two more dogs to the Dish.

ABC’s Sunday talking heads show has a new host. Is she a secret Taliban sympathizer?

A Federal District Court Judge has allowed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s health care reform law filed by the Commonwealth of Virginia to proceed.

A growing number of conservatives are in dismay about the state of their movement.

Should anyone care that Chelsea Clinton’s wedding was ridiculously lavish?

In the first entry in this series we looked at a basic question of democratic theory. In this one, we look at whether the EC ever worked as the Framers intended.

Twenty-five years after retiring as President Reagan’s Budget Director, David Stockman is back with a scathing indictment of Republican fiscal policies over the past four decades.

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan shared his views on extending the Bush tax cuts today on MTP.

American Conservatism has changed significantly since the days of William F. Buckley Jr. One former National Review editor says that it’s changed for the worse.

General Motors, and Barack Obama, are betting the future on a car that may be nothing more than an electric lemon.

Does anybody here know anything about slide or film scanners or 8mm conversion?

Democrats have not figured out how to use President Obama during the upcoming Mid-Term campaign, if at all.

Some number of people are staying married while living separate lives. This is, apparently, news.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t say whether she thinks the war in Afghanistan is worth the increasing toll on American blood and treasure.

A number of disturbing incidents point towards increased anti-Islam hostility in the United States.

The first in a multi-part series on the Electoral College.

Everyone seems to agree that the new 1099 reporting requirements contained in the health care reform bill are a bad idea, but nobody wants to take the time to repeal them.

The Electoral College is the worst way to elect a President, except for all the others.