Outside the Beltway

What seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.

Obama is trying to get into Guinness under “US President with Most Simultaneous Wars”

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

The crackdown in Libya is turning into a massacre.

As in Baharain, the Libyan Government has reacted violently to the populist uprising sweeping the Arab world. The difference is the Libyans are doing it largely without anyone noticing

The events in Egypt have led some to ask if the mere act of cutting off access to the Internet is, in itself, an human rights violation.