Outside the Beltway

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.

A song written when Grover Cleveland was President is still protected by Copyright Law. That makes no sense at all.

Three women missing for more than ten years have been found alive, apparently kidnapped by three brothers in Cleveland.

Today is the 75th anniversary of Superman.

Senator Rob Portman changes his position on same-sex marriage. Another sign of the times.

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

How two head coaches got struggling NFL teams ready to play one day after the shocking death of a teammate.

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

It’s time to panic over anonymous guys in Philadelphia again, at least if you work at Fox News Channel.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

It’s just a few days until the 2012 campaign ends, and the jostling for position for 2016 begins.

The arguments in favor of major changes in the way we elect our President are unpersuasive.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

Sizing up the stakes for tonight’s one and only meeting between the two Vice-Presidential candidates.

Some of the NFL’s heftier players do not appreciate the new form-fitting jerseys introduced this season.

Mitt Romney’s “47 Percent” remarks seem to be hurting him.

Ronald Reagan was leading Jimmy Carter long before the two men met in Cleveland on October 28th, 1980.

The GOP still hasn’t dealt with the legacy of George W. Bush.

A rather egregious case of misplaced priorities in Texas.

As public education continues to wallow in the past, some parents are looking elsewhere for alternatives.

Will winning a championship finally overshadown “The Decision” and erase the NBA’s best player’s reputation as a choke artist?

Both candidates are telling the public that they can change the way Washington works. They’re both setting themselves up to be the source of major disappointment.

Another sign this morning that the economic has been slowing, and may be contracting.

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

Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

The outpouring from my Twitter stream yesterday on the news of the death of Adam Yauch, MCA of the Beastie Boys, surprised me.

Five suspects have been arrested in a plot to blow up a Cleveland bridge.

Legendary musician Levon Helm is dying.

The Sky News leadership is taking a novel approach to charges that it illegally hacked emails: Claiming a right to break the law when they think it’s in the public’s interest to do so.

Voter ID laws are a good idea, but we have to be careful in how we implement them.