Outside the Beltway

From Juiceboxer to arguably the most important media figure on the left.

One of the OG blog pundits has reached a big milestone.

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

Even innocent interactions with women in public can amount to harassment. Where should we draw the line?

Chief Justice Roberts is the only person who gets to say who sits on the FISA Court.

Should we stop televising political debates?

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Public interest groups want the Supreme Court to fix our stupid copyright laws.

People are seeing irony where it doesn’t exist.

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The blogosphere spends more time dissecting the lyrics of a classic Beatles song than John Lennon did in writing them.

If the Obama Administration gets it’s way, your secure Internet communications won’t really be all that secure.

JournoList may not have been a conspiracy, but it was an example of what you might call an the closing of the journalistic mind.

In the fight between law and appetite, bet on appetite.

San Francisco’s ban on sugary drinks is the latest example of nanny state reductio creep.

A roundup of some of the more intelligent commentary on the Big Picture issues in the brouhaha of the day.

For universal icons, albeit fictional ones, to suddenly become partisan props is a bit sad.