Outside the Beltway

Some DC based hipsters want to know why America doesn’t have good pubs like in London. It turns out, they’re everywhere.

Further thoughts on a rather radical proposed Amendment to the Constitution, prompted by a link from Instapundit.

While not inherently unconstitutional, lame duck Congresses have the potential for violating the spirit of the Constitution and create the potential for mischief on the part of Representatives who have been thrown out of office.

A ten year old case out of Texas raises yet more doubts about the justice of the death penalty.

Dana Milbank asks, “Would we be better off under a President Hillary Clinton?” His affirmative answer isn’t very convincing.

A Chicago voter is less than thrilled with the political slate for which he’s voting today.

Thanks to a combination of good intelligence and fast action, it looks like the U.S. and UK avoided a serious attack on airliners last week.

Jonah Goldberg has written a bad column. In this case, an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune headlined “Why is Assange still alive?”

The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney (G) is misspelled as ‘Whitey’ on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen Chicago wards — about half in predominantly African-American areas.

As widely rumored, Fredi Gonzalez has been hired to manage the Atlanta Braves, following the retirement of the beloved Bobby Cox.

Barack Obama is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t when riding his bike. Wear a helmet, and he’s a dork. Don’t, and he’s setting a bad example.

The Supreme Court yesterday heard oral argument in a case where being on the right side means supporting some vile people, but that’s what the First Amendment is all about.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is leaving his job at week’s end to run for mayor of Chicago.

America’s elite universities have proportionately fewer slots than their English and French counterparts. Does it matter?

The Navy has fired fourteen skippers this year. Eleven of those were for personal misconduct.

Tonight’s topics: The Gallup poll and the vanishing 10-point Republican lead, whether we overreacted to 9/11, Mike Castle and the RINO/DINO problem, income inequality, and the retirement of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.

With Rahm Emanuel apparently set to leave the White House to run for Mayor of Chicago, speculation is turning to who may replace him in what some have called the nation’s de facto Prime Minister-ship.

It’s getting harder and harder to tell blogs from newspapers.

The first ad of the 2012 presidential cycle has aired, by some dentist touting Hillary Clinton. She’s not running. Could she?

Terrorism dry-run or just weirdly packaged items and a few coincidences?

The Army and its officer corps are becoming increasingly Southern and rural. Is this a bad thing? If so, what can we do about it?

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, and his hair, will live to fight another day.

Christopher Hitchens takes us through this initial weeks with cancer with brutal introspection and wry humor.

How does the Electoral College influence policy and campaigning?

According to Maureen Dowd, Barack Obama’s biggest problem is that there are too many white people in this picture.

You’re invited to attend President Obama’s birthday party. That’ll be $30,000.

Having a computer in the home does not have a significant impact on academic achievement, according to several new studies.

What exactly is it about air conditioning that has some people so upset ?

Not surprisingly, American’s partisan views on the Supreme Court are pretty much wrong.

George Will has some real questions for Elena Kagan. Too bad nobody’s going to ask them.

The Supreme Court resolved a 100+ year old Constitutional ambiguity today, but the legal issues surrounding gun control remain as murky as ever.

Contrary to popular belief, Adolf Hitler didn’t come to power by democratic means or because of his ability to whip the public into a frenzy.

Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling and media mogul Conrad Black got new life today from the Supreme Court, who ruled the use of the “honest services” doctrine against them unconstitutionally vague.

Law schools are artificially raising student grades, sometimes retroactively, to make them more competitive on the job market.

It is notoriously difficult to judge a presidency mid-stream.

The White House and Rahm Emanuel were quick to deny the reports that he has a plan to leave the White House.