Outside the Beltway

There are some signs that there may be room to strike a deal on the extension of unemployment benefits, but it’s likely to require some drama on Capitol Hill before it happens.

One of the dumbest rules in sports may mean that people in three cities can’t see their teams play this weekend.

Thanks to a Federal District Court Judge, most of Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain.

The FCC is looking at re-examination of its sports broadcast rules. The NFL and other sports leagues should do the same thing.

Ron Fournier sees major similarities but ignores key differences.

The Fox News Channel created “War On Christmas” officially entered the absurd zone last week.

Without a deal of some kind, it’s quite likely that Edward Snowden will remain beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement or some time to come.

Time to start talking about lame ducks?

The Federal Exchange website seems to be functioning better, but many questions about implementation of the PPACA remain to be answered.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

It is clear the President has been failed by those under him. So, when is someone going to pay the price?

A story that has turned into a partisan kickball and some bad journalism have resulted in a celebrated news program getting considerable egg on its face.

A 500 pound French man was denied a return flight by British Airways.

I’m happy that these incidents are so rare. But I can’t explain why it’s so.

Are these four men our last, best hope for a deal that will end the shutdown and avoid breaching the debt ceiling?

So much for the most transparent Administration in history.

63% are angry at Republicans, 57% are angry at Democrats, and 53% are angry at President Obama.

The first poll taken after the shutdown began has little good news for the Republican Party.

The GOP seems perfectly fine with risking a shutdown, even though polling shows they’d pay the biggest price for it.

Can differences in media coverage of two unrelated filibusters be explained solely by media bias?

The Emmys will honor Cory Monteith but not Jack Klugman or Larry Hagman. Where in that sentence you said “Who?” will tell us how old you are.

Even before the Russian curve ball, the public opposition to military strikes on Syria was mounting.

Score one for Team Bush?

One of the iconic speeches in American history is copyrighted.

There’s no such thing as “sex addiction.”

Would your cable bill be cheaper if you could just subscribe to the channels you wanted to watch?

Abu Sufyan al-Azdi, al Qaeda’s number two man in Yemen, is still dead. Or dead again. Or finally dead.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

While the military was ousting Egypt’s democratically elected president, the US Secretary of State was on his yacht.

A thirteen hour filibuster by Wendy Davis ran out the clock on a special session of the Texas legislature, apparently defeating an abortion bill that passed 19-10 after time expired.

The broadcast networks want to operate under the same FCC guidelines as the cable networks. And they should.

Revelations about the NSA’s data mining programs don’t seem to be having a significant impact on public opinion.

Allegations of wrongdoing and cover-up at Foggy Bottom.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.