Outside the Beltway

The free market in action.

Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.

The NYT says it’s time for U. S. advisers and military air traffic controllers on the ground in Libya.

Terry Jones may sue the City of Dearborn for its prior restraint actions against him. And he should.

The new CBS/NYT poll is out and the numbers are not exactly happy, no matter whom you support.

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

On Palm Sunday, French Christians stormed a museum and slashed Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ

Sarah Palin was back speaking to a Tea Party crowd yesterday, but it just doesn’t seem like matters anymore.

Demographic information about TV viewers is worthless to advertisers.

Presidential wannabe Jon Huntsman wrote some embarrassing letters about President Obama and the Clintons.

Donald Trump is waiting to announce whether he’s running for president until after taping of “The Apprentice” concludes. Some thing NBC shouldn’t allow him to wait.

A Huffington Post contributor who had no expectation of being paid for his contributions is suing HuffPo for $105 million.

Donald Trump has been surging in polls of Republican voters recently, but that doesn’t mean much of anything.

Paul Krugman is disappointed with the President, but it’s really his own fault for being so naive.

The Federal government is funding a Pakistan version of Sesame Street for $20 million.

Another bizarre case from the annals of rogue judges and runaway sentencing.

Breathless hysteria over the trend toward a less white America misses an important fact: most Hispanics are white.

Glenn Beck will leave his Fox News show in December.

The war on childhood fun reaches the East Coast.

Bristol Palin was paid $262,500 by Candies Foundation as an anti-teen pregnancy spokesman. That’s 7 times what they spent on teen pregnancy prevention.

The Obama Administration has given up on the idea of trying the September 11th suspects in a civilian court. Considering how much that trial would have perverted the justice system, that’s a good thing.

Philip Greenspun wonders, “How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?”

Rather than fighting over the remnants of the FY 2011 budget, the GOP should make a deal and get ready for the bigger, and more important, battle ahead.

The experiences of two well-known academics denied tenure at Chicago provide some clues.

The New York Times wins for “Afghans Avenge Florida Koran Burning, Killing 12.”

Nor, it would seem, are really tired clichés.

Xavier Alvarez lied about having been awarded the Medal Of Honor. Should that be a crime? The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals says no, and they’re right.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.