Outside the Beltway

Knowing his downfall was imminent, the former Egyptian dictator moved vast wealth out of rich of Western governments.

A new Wikileaks revelation indicates that the U.S. may have paid a heavy price to get a deal on New START.

Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Andy McNab writes books for people who like video games.

Washington D.C.’s 34 year-old Metro system is about to become the latest stage for Security Theater.

Americans who think our politics couldn’t get more polarized need only look across the Pond, where our European cousins have been routinely dealing with rioting in the streets over measures to rein in unsustainable social programs.

Some DC based hipsters want to know why America doesn’t have good pubs like in London. It turns out, they’re everywhere.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Tuesday in London on a Swedish warrant.

Mike Bloomberg says we’re electing people to Congress who “can’t read” and “don’t have passports.”

The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

Tensions are on the rise again on the Korean Peninsula after North Korea shelled a South Korean island.

Are the American people finally waking up to the absurdity of TSA security theater? One can only hope they are.

Is the current media environment a problem for proper political discourse?

After three months, Rupert Murdoch’s strategy of walling off the Times websites isn’t looking so smart.

Karl Rove unloaded what may be the beginning of the GOP Establishment’s effort to cut a Palin Presidential bid off at the knees.

If you’re like me, you think of William Shakespeare’s plays as being rendered in an archaic but decidedly upper crust British English. It turns out that this is an artifact of modern theater.

Western athletes who’ve complained about the conditions at the Commonwealth Games are coming in for a firestorm of criticism.

Epic flooding in Pakistan is a humanitarian crisis which dwarfs the combined devastation of the 2004 Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Why aren’t we paying attention?

Elation at discovering 33 miners still alive after over two weeks of looking for them is giving way to the reality that it will take roughly 4 months to get them out.

If you think Jimmy Carter is the Worst Figure in American History, you really need to read more.

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

Today’s outrage of the day comes in the form of a new report claiming that the United States supported the release of the only man accused. But the report itself proves that isn’t what happened.

Depending on which papers you read, the British NHS is undergoing minor restructuring, secretly planning major cuts in basic services, or doing nothing of concern.

As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.

Alvin Greene is running a political campaign, but it’s unlike anything anyone has ever seen before.

Parenting is hard work and kids are a giant pain. Is it worth it?

More Politics 101 for Rand Paul.

It turns out that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi isn’t dying after all, at least not any faster than any other human being.

Africans are rallying around the Ghanaian World Cup team, putting aside stark differences. Should we be surprised?

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss — a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.

“It’s illogical to hunt a species to extinction.” – Spock

Does it matter if the controversial McChrystal comments were “off the record” ? No, it doesn’t.

When it comes to the Supreme Court, most Americans have no idea what they’re talking about.

General Stanley McChrystal is opening his mouth again and, this time, it could cost him his job.

The White House and Rahm Emanuel were quick to deny the reports that he has a plan to leave the White House.