Outside the Beltway

The Japan nuclear meltdown has now topped the scale used to measure such things, reaching the same level as the Chernobyl disaster. It’s a stupid scale.

Why did then-Governor Mike Huckabee’s office destroy all its office hard drives shortly before leaving office?

Defense Secretary Gates hinted this week that the U.S. would stay in Iraq if the Iraqis wanted. It doesn’t seem like they do.

Humorous take on America’s wars.

Natural disasters in Japan have lessened the supply of pigments necessary to make black paint.

Nuclear power remains far safer than coal. The awful events in Fukushima must not spook governments outlawing atomic energy.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

There are many opportunities to go to war. Here’s a guide for choosing between them.

Earth’s moon will seem bigger Saturday night than it has since 1993. It’ll still be the same size as usual, however.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is the latest idiot celebrity to damage their career on Twitter.

Bastiat vs. the Second Law of Thermodynamics

President Obama is once again catching flak for his leisure activities.

Archaeologists may have found the lost city of Atlantis. And, no, not the one in the Bahamas.

Status report on the damage in Japan.

Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)

Can the massive destruction caused by the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns stimulate the economy?

A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.

The damage in Japan from today’s quake is dramatic and heartbreaking.

The first wave of the tsunami caused by the Japanese earthquake is expected to strike Hawaii at 8:00am EST.

Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake, which in turned spawned a tsunami.

European subsidies have given Airbus a competitive advantage over America’s Boeing in commercial aircraft salesboein. The reverse is true on military aircraft.

Time for midterms.

With just over a week to go before the 112th Congress convenes, battle lines are already being drawn in battle over the defense budget.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

Red States should gain 10 seats while Blue States should lose eight.

McCain brings up “regime change” in re: the DKRP and China apparently isn’t doing enough.

What sort of response is required to Pyongyang’s ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula?

North Korea has unveiled to the world a new nuclear processing facility that puts back on the table the question of just what we should, or can, do about the fact that a rogue state possesses nuclear weapons and wants to build more.

Has Uncle Sam got a deal for you: Lend the Treasury money for five years and it will only cost you negative 0.55 percent!

Should the UN expand the number of permanent Security Council members?

The Navy has fired fourteen skippers this year. Eleven of those were for personal misconduct.

There isn’t much doubt that China is manipulating its currency for competitive advantage. What can be done about it?

According to Paul Krugman’s latest column, the massive destruction of World War Two was actually good for the U.S. economy. Sadly, there are people who consider him an expert.