Outside the Beltway

DHS Secretary Napolitano issues some vague warnings to Congress.

If Mubarak is driven from power, will that make Egypt a case of “revolution”?

Glenn Beck seems to have more in common with End Time preachers than he does with a serious political analyst.

It seems to me that inactivity can have just as profound affects as activity and likewise that it is rather difficult to argue that health care isn’t part of interstate commerce.

Amy Chua captured the two things we fear most: the Chinese and our children.

Once again, it looks like efforts to reform the Senate’s filibuster rules have fallen victim to that old devil politics.

Demanding that the new GOP House hold the line at the current number is satisfying rhetorically, but all-but-impossible politically.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

David Kurtz reports, “House Republicans are about to use “deem and pass” — a.k.a., a self-executing rule — which you may recall was the same legislative mechanism they decried last year during the health care reform debate as a threat to all that is right and good about America.”

Some people in the D.C. area are worried that the Federal spending gravy train may be coming to an end. They should be.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Chicago’s next mayor will be either Rahm Emanuel or Carol Moseley Braun.

The seemingly sensible end-of-life counseling that was originally part of the Health Care Reform Bill is making a comeback.

Hawaii’s new Governor is taking on the Birther myth.

So, Kodak is suing Shutterfly because it claims to have invented the idea of putting pictures on the Internet.

Ohio Congressman Steve Driehaus is suing a pro-life PAC for “defamation” and “loss of livelihood” over its role in his defeat in the 2010 Elections.

The repeal of DADT has resulted in some odd claims being made.

Judicial activism doesn’t mean “reaching a decision I don’t like.”

Hinckley, California — the town that Erin Brockovich made famous — has slightly less cancer than we’d expect.

Joe Ratzinger, the future pope, lobbied hard against Turkey’s membership in the EU.

Those of us who think we’re overreacting to terrorism should remember that we’re in a tiny minority.

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is speaking positively about an Amendment that would drastically alter the relationship between the Federal Government and the states, and a method of ratifying it that could do serious damage to the Constitution as a whole.

Should blogs and other online forums ban anonymous comments?

Former Senator Alan Simpson is fighting back against the critics on the left and the right who are shooting down the Deficit Commission’s plan before it’s even been released.

NATO-Russia cooperation on missile defense is a welcome step forward.

Cathy Bossi, a U.S. Airways stewardess and cancer survivor, was forced to show her breast implants to TSA agents when her prosthetic implants triggered alarm during a pat-down.

Yet another sign that the GOP’s biggest nightmare may actually end up coming true.