Outside the Beltway

Some things are worth repeating.

Wearing a wire can come back to bite you.

Good riddance to Anthony Weiner. But what makes him so special?

Would it be unconstitutional for Congress to extend Mueller’s term?

The Obama Administration is resisting efforts to expand Fourth Amendment protections to services like Gmail. That’s unfortunate.

The most likely cuts in federal spending are likely to actually increase the deficit over time.

Mob Boss Tommy Shots Gioeli Blogs From Jail

The Obama Justice Department says it can look at phone records without warrants or judicial oversight.

Taking a dive into Mark Levin’s view of Federalism.

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

Three months after the allegations were first made. the FEC has opened a criminal investigation of Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell

Another FBI sting operation results in the arrest of a “terrorist,” or did it create a crime where none existed before?

Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland on Friday, but the bomb turned out to be a dud supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting.

Top administration and congressional officials can skip the indignities of airport screening, even when they fly commercial.

Thanks to a combination of good intelligence and fast action, it looks like the U.S. and UK avoided a serious attack on airliners last week.

Jonah Goldberg has written a bad column. In this case, an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune headlined “Why is Assange still alive?”

Another undercover sting nets a would-be terrorist.

Recklessness.

Nineteen years after they ended, the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings are back in the news thanks to a voicemail that Thomas’s wife left for Professor Hill.

It’s been a decade since al Qaeda attacked the USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors. The perpetrators are still at large.

Robert Lane Greene investigates the rise of acronyms, initialisms, and other informal shortenings of speech.

If the Obama Administration gets it’s way, your secure Internet communications won’t really be all that secure.

Everyone from David Petraeus to Sarah Palin is speaking out against a nutbag pastor’s Koran burning event. While they’re right, they’re emphasizing the wrong message.

Did you know that more Christians than Muslims were victims of hate crimes in America? Did you also know that there are a lot more Christians? Oh. Never mind, then.

Strippers didn’t attack us on 9/11. Then again, neither did American Muslims.

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, and his hair, will live to fight another day.

How did the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory turn into a national political issue ? Well, it’s a rather interesting story.

Again, despite the rhetoric of some, the US does continue to enforce laws relevant to the border and, indeed, enforcement has been on the rise.