Outside the Beltway

Thirty five years after trying to kill President Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is close to being a free man.

Two cases quite a distance from each other, but in both police seem to be acting with a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ attitude, especially when it comes to African-American men.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

Congratulations Cleveland! Next month, you get Donald Trump.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.

A music legend has passed at far too young an age.

A country music legend has passed.

Trump is doing the opposite of trying to calm things down.

Donald Trump has spent nine months encouraging his supporters to beat up protesters and calling the press “scum.” Words have consequences.

The producer behind a group of music legends has passed away at the age of 90.

The reclusive author of one of the greatest American novels ever written has died at the age of 89.

January’s Jobs Report was nothing to write home about.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

Another icon of popular music has passed away.

Glenn Frey, bandleader of the Eagles, has died.

David Bowie has passed away at the age of 69 after a long battle with cancer.

Merry Christmas!

Remembering a legend on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

You thought Betamax died three decades ago didn’t you?

France’s President blames ISIS, vows response, as death toll from Paris terror attacks stands at at least 127.

Donald Trump’s latest tirade has led to another round of speculation as to whether or not he’s ‘gone too far’ and reached the beginning of the end of his campaign. Don’t count on it.

From now on, you’ll just have to read it for the articles.

A Federal Judge has ruled that the copyright to ‘Happy Birthday To You’ has been invalid for at least the past eighty years.

A true legend has passed.

A company you probably thought had died off years ago filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday.

Tragedy in Tennessee.

Well, that didn’t take long.

Taylor Swift is taking a stand against Apple’s new streaming music service, and she’s largely right.

It’s been obvious from the moment the news broke that the murders in Charleston were rooted in racism, but some Republicans have had trouble acknowledging that.

The nine-year-old ‘Army Strong’ ad campaign is ended.

Iowa Republicans may be a day away from putting the Iowa Straw Poll out of its, and our, misery.

There’s a better way to finance news than hiding it behind paywalls.

Norway is moving to all-digital radio.

Ben Carson will be entering the race for President next month, but don’t pretend for a minute that he’s a serious candidate.

Don’t say “climate change” or “global warming” if you work for Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection.

Leonard Nimoy, the actor who became a household name as Mr. Spock with the “Star Trek” television series and movies, has died at 83.

One of the pioneers of the Internet warns that we’re in danger of losing entire generations’ worth of history because of digitization.

The January Jobs Report showed that the trend of strong jobs growth we saw in 2014 appears to be continuing into the new year.

With major theater chains having pulled out, Sony bowed to the inevitable, but now there appears to be proof that a foreign power is behind the Sony hacking attacks and threats of violence.

Some on the left are suggesting Democrats should write off the South for the foreseeable future, but that would be as foolish as Republicans assuming that their dominance in the region will last as long as Democratic dominance did in the century after the Civil War.

Strong jobs growth in November means that 2014 is already the best year for jobs growth since 1999.

The Justices of the Supreme Court seemed to struggle yesterday to find an easy way to draw a line between protected speech and the kind of threats that are not protected by the First Amendment.