Outside the Beltway

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

Mayor Bloomberg has decided to hold the New York Marathon Sunday even though millions are still without power and the city infrastructure is unable to cope with normal activity.

How Obama can have a 75 percent chance of winning an election despite being essentially tied in the polls:

Do we really need to guard the Tomb of the Unknowns in the midst of a hurricane?

Sometimes, real life catches up with those who think their online life is secret.

Days after “Friday Night Lights” author Buzz Bissinger endorsed Mitt Romney, the writer and producer of the acclaimed television spin-off is accusing the campaign of plagiarizing the show’s catchphrase.

Yet another in a long line of critiques of the electoral college.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

A new study looks at the reasons why people are so belligerent in their online communications.

A wonderfully descriptive story in the New York Times Style section that’s almost surely mere anecdote being touted as trend.

Sacrificing our principles in the face of mob violence is never a good idea.

If the United States and Egypt were Facebook friends, their relationship status would be “It’s Complicated.”

If we are going to assess the “Reagan Question” then methinks some data would be helpful.

Andrew Ross Sorkin says Facebook’s IPO was a debacle. Mark Cuban says this misunderstands the purpose of an IPO.

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

An Atlantic story on veterans returning to college is both poignant and miscast.

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

Mark Levin provides the latest example.

Mitt Romney’s forces won a rules change that will allow future nominees to have more say over their conventions. While this strikes me as a no-brainer, some conservative activists are up in arms.

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

As far as the law is concerned, your social media accounts aren’t private at all.

Facebook’s stock has lost nearly 50% of its value since the company went public, and the plunge probably isn’t over.

Another day, another mass shooting in America. Details are sketchy.

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

NBC’s Olympic coverage doesn’t necessarily recognize the realities of social networking and the 24 hour news cycle.

Why do we hold Nutella to a higher truth standard than our presidential candidates?

Rob Tornoe has revised his Joe Paterno-Bear Bryant cartoon in light of the Freeh Report.

Nick Cohen dubs this year’s London Games the “Censorship Olympics.” Had he called them the “London Censorship Olympics,” the “2012 Censorship Olympics,” or titled the piece “Censorship Takes London Gold” he might have faced civil or criminal penalties.

Lies and misrepresentations in politics seem to be something the American people have come to, if not accept, at least expect.