Outside the Beltway

There’s still no strategy.

Someone had to report it!

An American patriot is gone at 81.

The martial artist and action movie star is gone at 86.

Is no one thinking about the end state?

USA! USA! USA!

Trump exploits our mistaken beliefs about crime to consolidate his power.

Nor does Benny Johnson.

A reasonable ruling clarifying a poorly-written prior opinion.

Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in public. Testimony that is likely to be the big story of the summer.

Perhaps NRO’s Charles W. Cooke needs to read the report (and do a better job of putting Mueller’s statements in context).

We already know enough to impeach.

The Lawfare gang and Popehat weigh in.

The principal findings of the Mueller report are now public. They’re good news for the President on Russia and a mixed bag on obstruction.

Desperate women are finding some horrific ways to terminate their pregnancies. Some are being arrested for it.

It’s just about time to schedule the piteous press conference.

A bizarre legal case from Italy.

Former Serbian commander Ratko Mladic has been arrested for alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.

Prisons can be so overcrowded as to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

Tim Pawlenty may face trouble from a pardon he issued while he was Governor of Minnesota.

Canada is much friendlier than the United States with regard to immigration.

Stein’s elitism actually obscured a very sound point hinted at in the title: “Presumed Innocent, Anyone?”

Ben Stein seems to have been out to lunch when he wrote his column about Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Are we safer in high population areas?

Amanda Marcotte argues that society secretly sympathizes with rapists.

A Texas high school student who was kicked off her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to cheer for her rapist had her lawsuit dismissed as frivolous and was ordered to pay $45,000 in legal fees.

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

A major law firm has withdrawn from defending DOMA in Court, and a public controversy has erupted.

Yes, please secure your home networks. But also: perhaps the police need to reevaluate their tactics.

David Simon on the drug war, the underclass, and America’s seamy underbelly.

The Obama Administration is resisting efforts to expand Fourth Amendment protections to services like Gmail. That’s unfortunate.

A government shutdown is not just a hypothetical in a debating contest. It will affect real people.

Another bizarre case from the annals of rogue judges and runaway sentencing.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has mastered the worlds of bodybuilding, show business, and politics. Next, he’s going to try his hand at being a Marvel superhero.

Amnesty International is drawing attention to capital punishment in the United States, with bad math and a credulous media on its side.

Xavier Alvarez lied about having been awarded the Medal Of Honor. Should that be a crime? The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals says no, and they’re right.

The federal government has spent seven years and some six million dollars pursuing Barry Bonds. Why?

Radley Balko and his blogs are moving to Huffington Post.