Outside the Beltway

Is 2013 the year of second acts in American politics? Eliot Spitzer seems to be the latest disgraced politician to hope that it is.

The Supreme Court’s handling of standing in the two same-sex marriage cases likely seems contradictory to many outside observers.

Those annoying “Sent from my iPhone” signature block disclaimers actually work.

Getting the courts involved in the organ transplant issue could end up being a huge mistake.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

New developments in a still very new area of the law.

The US Senate wants to know why Apple and other big technology companies are paying so little into the US Treasury.

Desktop PC sales fell by nearly 14% in the first quarter, continuing an ongoing trend. There are many reasons this is happening.

All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever.

A Brazilian group is suing Apple for making its iPads better too quickly.

You can’t always get what you want.

Newsweek is joining US News in getting out of the printed magazine business, leaving Time as the last old American newsweekly standing.

American politicians are using China as a scapegoat for America’s problems.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

Four idiot privates from Fort Stewart planned to take over the base, kill the president, and take over the government.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

A new lawsuit from Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary seeks to bar Apple from importing it’s most popular products into the United States.

Facebook’s stock has lost nearly 50% of its value since the company went public, and the plunge probably isn’t over.

Storing all your data in the cloud isn’t necessarily a good idea.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Some [expletive deleted] survey says that swearing at work is bad, even though almost everyone surveyed admits swearing at work.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s alleged involvement in moving companies overseas is entirely phony.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

The City of Detroit appears ready to abandon vast sections of itself to the metaphorical jungle.

Recall elections in a hyper-partisan atmosphere are not a good thing.

Most of us with iPhone 4’s use Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant–but for a very limited range of tasks.

The AFA strikes again.

It’s not just low wages that have kept technology manufacturing jobs out of the United States.

The combined value of Apple’s stock is more than the GDP of some countries.

At least some of Mitt Romney”s investment money sits in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. Does it matter?

Mitt Romney is taking heat for his role at Bain Capital. He shouldn’t.

A new Gallup poll indicates that it is Big Government, not Big Business, that most concerns the American public.

Once again, Americans hate Congress but seem to love their Congressperson.

Are these The Final Two?