Outside the Beltway

Yet another case of breathless media reporting on academic research findings.

Not surprisingly, a new study finds that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has not caused any harm to the military.

Doug Saunders makes the counterintuitive claim that things are better for Britons than ever.

Microsoft sold its cable stake in MSNBC years ago; now, it’s ending ties with the MSNBC.com website, too.

A third of Americans under the age of 30 doubt the existence of God, compared to 14 percent 25 years ago.

Marriage has always been an evolving institution.

There are advantages to cash that electronic transactions cannot replicate.

Andrew Sullivan wants the Catholic Church to give up its hatred of homosexuals. There’s another alternative.

Rick Santorum would do well to listen to the words of the last Catholic to be President of the United States.

Maggie Gallagher’s anti-gay marriage argument is an example of pure conservative thinking.

The entire above-the-fold of Drudge Report is devoted to anti-Gingrich stories, which continue on scrolling.

Domestic dispute or criminal act?

Gingrich is rising in the polls for reasons that help him in the primary race, but may hurt in a General Election.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.

Michelle needs to stop buying shoes–but Barack’s keeping his golf clubs.

Does a family court have the authority to tell a parent to delete a blog critical of his ex-wife?

It won’t go anywhere this year, but after 15 years someone is finally trying to repeal a bad law.

The passage of a new same-sex marriage law has Democrats talking about Andrew Cuomo.

The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.

So, Anthony Weiner is a lying dick. Does it matter?

Mitch Daniels, the candidate of George Will and a host of mainstream Republicans hoping for something better in 2012, has announced he will not be running for president in 2012.

Can one effectively run for the presidency if one’s spouse doesn’t want to be in the spotlight?

Tom Ricks doesn’t understand why we need an exit strategy in Libya.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is the latest Republican to reject the idea that America is a secular nation.

Newt Gingrich is very popular among young conservatives. But two ugly divorces will keep him from being a contender for the presidency.

On the eve of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, another shot has been fired by those boycotting the meeting due to the presence of a gay conservative group.

A Michigan man faces five years in prison for reading his wife’s email.

Shania Twain has married Frederic Thiebaud, former husband of Marie-Anne Thiebaud, the woman Twain’s ex-husband Mutt Lange had an affair with.

California’s Proposition 8 faced another legal test in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, and the day didn’t seem to go well for opponents of same-sex marriage.

In her new book, Sarah Palin puts forward a view of the role of religion in politics that is in direct contrast with America’s own traditions.

If some security “experts” get their way, the security procedures we encounter at airports could start showing up elsewhere. Will Americans stand for it?

Political pundits love centrism and moderate candidates. But political movements are built on desire for broad change.

A Vanity Fair piece imagines what John Lennon’s life would have been like had he survived an assassin’s bullet.

A case out of Texas demonstrates quite aptly the absurdity of the current patchwork quilt approach to same-sex marriage in the United States.