Outside the Beltway

Continuing the discussion from earlier this week on hate crimes.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s choices in home decor raise an interesting question.

NATO seems intent on sending a signal to Vladmir Putin that there are limits to his patience.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells wonders with some irritation “Why Henry Kissinger Never Goes Away.”

A Jewish-American OSS hero has been denied the nation’s highest military honor.

Russian invasion or legitimate secessionist movement? And does it matter?

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

Gizmodo’s Brian Barrett explains “Why the South Fell Apart in the Snow.”

In case you needed a further reason to dismiss Jerome Corsi (and some general thoughts on what Corsi represents).

Why do we persist in going to war?

Is 435 the right number?

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

The U.S. delegation to Russia’s Sochi Olympics will feature no high profile politicians and several openly gay athletes.

Thoughts on the precursors to the events of 72 years ago today.

There are many choices in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program there are many choices, but some are better than others.

The opponents of the temporary deal reached in Geneva have been making some ridiculous historical analogies.

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

Thanks largely to France, this weekend’s efforts to reach an interim deal on Iran’s nuclear program fell apart.

Daylight Savings Time ends early on Sunday. Perhaps it should never return.

The economy of the Euro Zone remains in quiet dire straits, unless you’re lucky enough to live in Germany.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

The latest revelations about National Security Agency surveillance outside the United States have caused quite an uproar overseas.

Bum Phillips, former head coach of the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints, has died aged 90.

(And a Postscript on Recent Discussion of the South)

Nazi comparisons are only helpful when discussing actual Nazis.

The destruction of Syria’s stockpiles will be slow and laborious even if all goes according to script.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

Washington Post Magazine profiles a local woman with a horrible secret: her father designed and ran Auschwitz.

Western military action in the Syrian civil war now appears likely.

Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”

Some conservatives don’t seem too troubled by Vladimir Putin’s repression.

Bill Clark, who served as National Security Advisor and Interior Secretary under Ronald Reagan, has died at 81.

Erstwhile country music legend Garth Brooks has become a grandfather.