Outside the Beltway

Hackers who have divulged embarrassing secrets from deep within Sony Pictures are now threatening violence if a film about a plot to kill Kim Jong Un is released.

Sony is warning the press not to publish material leaked by hackers, but it doesn’t have much of a legal leg to stand on.

The Obama Administration took some fire yesterday for recent Ambassadorial Appointments, but the President’s record has been consistent with those of his recent predecessors.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle like to tell people they’re just “average Americans,” but they’re lying and the American people seem to have figured out that they’re lying.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

MSNBC’s attempt to be the liberal Fox News isn’t working.

Attorneys for celebrities caught up in the leak of nude photographs are targeting Google.

The Khorasan Group is, functionally, al Qaeda. Or is it?

The summer of 2014 was the worst Hollywood has seen since Bill Clinton was President. It’s pretty easy to figure out why.

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

Apparently, things were tougher in Chappaqua, New York and on D.C.’s Embassy Row than we ever imagined.

Contrary to the oft-repeated slogan, the United States has negotiated with terrorists before. And we will do it again.

For the first time, Edward Snowden is talking to the American media.

The tragedy in Santa Barbara will. inevitably, revive the same old gun debate. But can it ever evolve beyond shouting?

On screen body objectification is now equal opportunity.

Chelsea Clinton is pregnant, and once again America’s political pundits are making fools of themselves.

When will BG Jeffrey Sinclair get an effing haircut?

Peggy Noonan asks an interesting question.

Ellen Page is gay. So is Michael Sam. Shouldn’t we be aiming for the day when the response to news like this is “So what?”

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is reportedly dead of a drug overdose at the age of 46.

My review of Andrew Bacevich’s latest book, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.

Tom Clancy, author of dozens of bestselling military thriller novels, has died aged 66.

Author Elmore Leonard has died at the age of 87.

Gay bars around the world are banning Russian vodka to protest the lack of gay rights in that country.