Outside the Beltway

Liberal leaders want Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire so President Obama can appoint her successor. She wants to hang around another decade.

Yesterday saw some of the biggest protests ever to rock Egypt. Where does it go from here?

Doesn’t pass the smell test.

The Egyptian military appears to be signalling that its patience for political chaos may be running short.

Public trust in the news media, along with many other institutions, continues to fall. That’s troublesome for many reasons.

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

The TIGTA audit reveals the BOLO “Tea Party” list was right 81% of the time. But does that change anything?

Another body blow to the Fourth Amendment from the Supreme Court.

Filling normal vacancies on the bench is not “packing the court.”

The GOP’s latest investigatory crusade could end up backfiring on them.

The Supreme Court has ducked an opportunity to expand the holdings in D.C. v. Heller

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

Bill McClellan calls for ending military funeral honors for most veterans.

The Defense Of Marriage Act didn’t fare very well during today’s Supreme Court oral arguments.

Habemus Papam

George Will declares solitary confinement tantamount to torture.

The Fourth Amendment got even weaker yesterday.

Our politicians have averted an artificial crisis of their own making. The next one’s in two months.

There are very rational reasons behind the current gridlock on Capitol Hill.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good idea.

Seems that the answer continues to be “no.”

Not as much learning going on as one might like, to be honest.

Wherein I get a bit petty (but to make a point and, maybe just because it amuses me).

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

David Brooks tries to “describe what being a moderate means” in a way that most Americans would find puzzling.

Why is Romney bragging on education policies a Democrat would love?

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

John Sides argues that, contrary to popular conception, undecided voters are neither morons nor non-partisan.

One of Mitt Romney’s own supporters didn’t like his foreign policy speech very much.

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

There’s no doubt about it, our political culture is pretty horrible.

So, Mitt Romney opened his mouth again.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

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

Mississippi is more conservative than Massachusetts is liberal.

Forbes media critic Jeff Bercovici is a bit late spotting a trend.

Polling racial attitudes and its linkage to support fro voter ID laws.

Alex Pareene’s quip that “Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals” has gone viral.