Outside the Beltway

The Postal Service announced another round of service cutbacks today that are likely to just make the rapidity of its decline increase

Is technology making retail politics less important?

How did Republicans get in this mess?

Public opinion on the Occupy movement has turned increasingly sour.

A Federal Judge has blocked a new FDA rule that would have placed these labels on cigarette packaging.

My latest for The Atlantic: “For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy”

Are America’s political parties become irrelevant?

Obama’s Justice Department continues its crackdown on medical marijuana, despite campaign promises to the contrary.

Rick Perry’s campaign isn’t dead by any means, but he needs to turn things around soon.

The British government has worked out a deal to block pornographic websites unless households specifically request them.

It’s time to start being concerned about Europe.

Is money the only thing that matters in post-Citizens United American politics?

Rick Santorum is tired of “filth” atop Google searches for his name and wants the company to do something about it.

In a truly bizarre move, Netflix is spinning off the DVD-by-mail business that built them into an international brand and going stream-only. Those wishing to keep getting movies will have to sign on to something called Qwikster.

Republicans have a plan to wrest half of the Keystone State’s electors from Obama.

A Wisconsin DOT official sent out a memo telling DMV staffers not to volunteer the availability of free voter identification cards.

Raw Story tweeted “Republicans in Rep. Giffords’ district plan to raffle off the same type of gun Jared Loughner used. ” This links to their own story demonstrating that they’re doing no such thing.

Do the less attractive deserve legal protection? One University Of Texas Profess thinks so.

A somewhat surprising First Amendment decision arising out of the 2010 Elections.

A new Tim Pawlenty television ad is raising copyright issues rather than, as intended, bringing back memories of the 80s.

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

As of June 17, Sarah Palin is a registered US trademark, serial number 85-170,226.

Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?

One law school grad seems to think the solution to her employment problems is to sue her law school.

Suddenly, it seems like every website known to man is foisting videos that play the instant the page loads on their readers.

Demographic information about TV viewers is worthless to advertisers.

A Huffington Post contributor who had no expectation of being paid for his contributions is suing HuffPo for $105 million.

Bristol Palin was paid $262,500 by Candies Foundation as an anti-teen pregnancy spokesman. That’s 7 times what they spent on teen pregnancy prevention.

Xavier Alvarez lied about having been awarded the Medal Of Honor. Should that be a crime? The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals says no, and they’re right.

The antiwar movement has been strangely silent despite the fact that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t really changed that much since Barack Obama became President.

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

Christopher Lee abruptly resigned from Congress mere hours after news broke that he was advertising for sex on Craigslist. Apparently, he was looking for trannies.

President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of the Defense Of Marriage Act on appeal was a proper and appropriate exercise of his authority as President Of The United States.

A former Democratic state attorney general thinks Wisconsin’s Republican governor may have violated state ethics laws while on a prank phone call.

Four years after Barack Obama became a Presidential candidate, the birther myth not only persists, it seems to be becoming more prevalent. Why?

Michael Medved wishes that conservatives would stop implying that the President of the United States wants to destroy the United States.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 could be a Google killer. It could also kill the Web as we know it.

Sports Illustrated is trying to force subscribers to pay for a bundle of web and print services. Bad idea.