Outside the Beltway

A former opponent of same-sex marriage admits he was wrong.

A new study shows that college students who take late classes drink more alcohol.

Catholic University president John Garvey explains “Why We’re Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms.”

Where’s the line when a public figure interacts with a teenage fan?

Is it appropriate for news organizations to decide that the people don’t need to hear from certain political candidates?

A 15-month-old was accidentally served a mixed drink instead of apple juice.

The Kleinfelds of New YorkDelhi Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Cruise lines are the latest to create separate enclaves for customers willing to pay more to escape the riffraff.

Is Saudi Arabia the next domino to fall in the Middle East? The Royal family is hoping that money will be enough to make sure that doesn’t happen.

I drink more coffee a month than the average person does a year. Indeed, I easily go through more than the 12 kilograms that represents the top end of the scale.

Americans drink less than Europeans and far less than Russians.

The success of Christian conservatives in blocking efforts to legalize Sunday alcohol sales in Georgia demonstrates why concentrating solely on national politics is a mistake.

The US drug policy gang: Dopey, Boozy, Smokey and Stupid?

Pedestrian fatalities are up. Experts blame Michelle Obama.

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

New research shows that “across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol” and, conversely, “a positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption (and especially between monogamy and drunkenness) across societies.”

Silver tequila is being marketed as an upscale super premium when, in fact, it’s the lowest form of tequila.

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is speaking positively about an Amendment that would drastically alter the relationship between the Federal Government and the states, and a method of ratifying it that could do serious damage to the Constitution as a whole.

Those images on your Facebook page may come back to haunt you if you decide to run for office someday.

Perhaps the dumbest study ever published in the Lancet compares the negative effects of alcohol and illicit drugs without controlling for incidence.

Experts say 80% of all alcohol sales go to people with drinking problems. The mathematics of that are staggering.

Yet another study shows what any of us who’ve ever spent any time around soldiers already knew: Our Army is not comprised of stupid people who couldn’t find a decent job.

The nine months humans spend in the womb may be the most important time of our lives. And that has some profound implications.

This November, California could become the first state in the nation to completely legalize the possession and sale of marijuana. And the battle over the ballot initiative is having an impact on other statewide races.

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

A review by the Army of its alarming spike in suicides blames it on the new strain of risk-seeking recruits who join during wartime and commanders who neglect to rein them in.

Newt Gingrich says that because there are no churches in Riyadh, we shouldn’t allow a mosque in New York.

Virginia’s governor wants the state to get out of the liquor business after 76 years. It’s about time.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court says cops can’t arrest people sleeping in parking lots for drunk driving. Cops and DAs are annoyed.

Thanks to JaMarcus Russell, I have learned a new term.

The late Senator Robert Byrd’s legacy as the master of pork barrel spending is secure.

General McChrystal and company spilled their guts to Rolling Stone on a road trip during which they were imbibing steadily.