Outside the Beltway

Apparently, questioning someone who may have violated their probation on the way to contributing to a series of international incidences is a major civil liberties violation.

Romney supporters seem to want to paint Obama as Carter. This is unlikely to help.

Is it possible to have the Volt conversation without it being about politics?

6% of Ohio voters think Mitt Romney deserves more credit than the commander-in-chief for killing Osama bin Laden.

“Growing up in California, it was illegal for Asians to marry whites. How times have changed. I married a white DUDE.”

Wherein a National Review piece leads me to think I am the OTB alpha blogger.

There’s a wee bit more to the “Progressive defended my sister’s killer” story that went viral yesterday.

A few more thoughts on the Romney VEEP pick.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

The PPACA, the fight over it, and the Sibelius ruling all underscore this fact.

So, we’re safe from that broccoli mandate, right?

Electing Romney hardly means repeal of the PPACA, even if he will make it sound that way.

The US Supreme Court has struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a federal crime to lie about military honors, on free speech grounds.

Frustrated by its inability to get laws passed through Congress, the Obama administration has decided to stop following laws already passed by Congress.

Sequencing matters.

The main problem is governing should be different than simplistic rhetoric.

Romney comes down firmly on the guns side of guns and butter.

We, as Americans, tend to have a limited knowledge of the institutional variation that exists across democratic systems around the world.

Yes, it is too hard to amend. A few quick thoughts on the subject.

Thoughts on tradition, church, and state.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Alan Dershowitz says the prosecutor who charged George Zimmerman with second degree murder of Trayvon Martin was “irresponsible and unethical” and politically motivated.

What we are seeing at the moment is the expected political churn that accompanies something as big as the PPACA case

A Reserve Specialist who endorsed Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy in uniform will only be reprimanded, not court martialed.

While I do not support a rush to legal judgment or mob justice, I see no problem in forming opinions.

Why isn’t Obama doing better in the polls and did we just see a Kinsey Gaffe in the wild?

Obama has borrowed slightly more money in 3 years than Bush did in 8. Does it matter?

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin met on the night of February 27th. Martin died, and a firestorm has erupted.

It is a curious thing, sometimes, to look at how different people interpret events.

What does it mean to have a limited government?

Doug Mataconis’ Thursday posting “Herman Cain Releases Bizarre New Video Involving Apparent Goldfish Murder” got picked up on that night’s edition of The Colbert Report.

People are seeing irony where it doesn’t exist.

A study of religiosity and young adults found that those who attend college are actually less likely to experience religious decline than those who do not attend college.

Rick Santorum swept three states that are off the media radar screen. Will it revive his campaign?

Yes, the US Constitution has been the most successful such document in human history. That does not mean it is a good template for other countries.

The AFA strikes again.

We need to have opinions on a subject as serious as war with Iran.

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

People who ought to know better are now concocting absurd scenarios to get around a really weak Republican presidential field.

I can’t be the only one who cringed at his applause line: “To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine.”

Toby Harnden tweets, “What a debacle for Iowa. Hard to see why candidates should take Iowa caucuses seriously in future.

A Mississippi judge has stayed a slew of pardons issued by Haley Barbour on his way out the door.