Outside the Beltway

The gambling mogul is self-reporting violations of the law against bribing foreign officials.

A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.

The ultimate impact of the Newtown tragedy on the nation’s gun laws is likely to be very limited.

Firearms are set to pass the automobile as the instrument for American deaths.

The Internet is a weird place.

George Zimmerman’s attorneys have filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC News.

Congress is trying to re-write a law that the Supreme Court found unconstitutional in June. Have they succeeded?

Has Petraeus provided the basic explanation for the administration’s immediate responses to Benghazi?

People continue to spread conspiracy theories explaining the “real reason” that David Petraeus’s extra-marital affair became public.

If nothing else, the Petraeus affair is teaching us a valuable lesson in just how extensive the Surveillance State has become.

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

A surprise Friday resignation at the CIA.

A Bangladeshi man was arrested yesterday in New York for an apparent plot to bomb Federal Buildings. The entire plot was an FBI sting operation.

The official narrative on the Benghazi consulate attack has changed again.

Ten years ago starting today, John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo began a crime spree that kept the D.C. area on a knife’s edge for three long weeks.

More than two weeks after four Americans — including the U.S. ambassador to Libya — were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured.

The White House’s theory of what happened in Benghazi is become less and less credible.

Michael Lewis has a long feature in Vanity Fair titled “Obama’s Way,” based on six months with the president.

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Do fiscal conservatives realize they’re being sold a bill of goods?

Security at the Republican Convention in Tampa looks more like a war zone than a political convention in a democratic republic.

The Republican Party has apparently solved all of the nation’s real problems and decided it can waste time on nonsense.

A corner has ruled the death of a handcuffed man in the back of a Jonesboro, AR police cruiser was a suicide. Needless to say, questions remain.

Entirely unsurprisingly, the shooting at the Family Research Center’s office in Washington, D.C. is already being politicized.

A gunman, possibly upset about FRC’s policies, shot a guard at the conservative Christian group’s Washington, D.C. offices this morning.

Penn State has been reminded that there’s a third word in its name: University.

A very suspicious “suicide” in police custody.

According to a new report, the CIA considers Israel to be an espionage threat.