Outside the Beltway

A quick flip-flop from Swedish authorities on a very serious charge.

The United States has promised $150 million in aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan. Should we have?

The 9th Circuit yesterday ruled that Stolen Valor laws violate the 1st Amendment and that there is a limited right to lie.

Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.

According to a new poll, 87% of border residents feel safe.

Two Florida teens have been arrested for being in possession of naked pictures of themselves.

Americans get apoplectic at stories of police officers shooting people’s pets but seem unphased when they shoot innocent human beings.

Despite assertions that the violence in Mexico is spilling over the border, we find a rather stark comparison of two key border cities.

Portland authorities have decided, for a second time, that there isn’t enough evidence to charge Al Gore with sexual assault in a 2006 case.

The link between immigration and crime rates that many immigration opponents point to simply does not exist

Congress has (after many years of debate) narrowed the gap between sentencing for crack cocaine and powder cocaine.

Yes, a lot of people are dying on the Arizona border, but the cause is not the drug war. Rather, it is simple fact that crossing the desert on foot is a dangerous proposition. (And this is not a new phenomenon).

Less than 24 hours before it was set to take effect, a Federal Judge has put a hold on most of the key provisions of Arizona’s immigration law.

Marco Rubio doesn’t want to see the proliferation of SB1070s to other states.

Today’s outrage of the day comes in the form of a new report claiming that the United States supported the release of the only man accused. But the report itself proves that isn’t what happened.

Inception has imposed itself as the film to beat for Best Picture and, I would guess, will become the lodestone for “mind movies” for a generation. Don’t miss it.

More decapitation talk.

Oakland’s police chief, miffed at recent budget cuts, has listed 44 crimes that his officers will no longer respond to.

Since 9/11 there has been a steady trickle of stories about jihadists hooking up with Latin American drug cartels and the like. Here is a guide of story points that can help you identify when such a story is almost certainly bogus.

Switzerland will not extradite scumbag Roman Polanski.

A Russian spy may be stripped of a degree he earned at the Kennedy school under a stolen identity.

Let’s revisit the question of crime levels in Arizona.

A white police officer has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing a black man. Now, the Feds are considering leveling their own charges.

Arizona has been experiencing a massive increase in violent crime of late, right?

Did the American media cover up torture by the Bush Administration?

San Francisco’s gay pride parade celebrates its 40th anniversary with Nancy Pelosi, the Backstreet Boys, and some dudes riding bike’s nekkid.

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.

Al Gore has been accused of sexually assaulting a “masseuse” in a Portland hotel room.