Outside the Beltway

Has a precedent been set for future requests by the President to increase the debt ceiling?

The reviews are in on the debt negotiations, and the public isn’t happy.

A somewhat surprising First Amendment decision arising out of the 2010 Elections.

Economic figures released today demonstrate clearly why the irresponsible talk surrounding the debt ceiling must end.

Christine Lagarde believes the impact could be large and global.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

Their mouths were moving, but nothing of substance was coming out.

Does the 10th Amendment contain the answer to the same-sex marriage debate? Not really.

In the 80’s it was yachts, today it’s private jets. The argument is the same, and it’s still without merit.

If a crisis over the national debt is averted, Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn may be the unlikely hero.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

Chris Christie and Rahm Emanuel are being criticized for the brusque manner they handled questions about their children’s education.

I never would have negotiated in the first place.

He’s not in the race (yet), but Rick Perry is already a top-tier 2012 candidate.

Does a family court have the authority to tell a parent to delete a blog critical of his ex-wife?

A social conservative attempts to argue that same-sex marriage is a threat to liberty, and fails miserably.

Reports of the death of the space program are greatly exaggerated.

Senator Al Franken called Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery a liar in yesterday’s hearing on DOMA. Franken was the one being dishonest.

It won’t go anywhere this year, but after 15 years someone is finally trying to repeal a bad law.

A video of the New York Times website from September 2010 to July 2011.

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

I must confess to having only paid peripheral attention at first, but it is clear that there is a major story here that requires attention.

A majority of Americans want to ban smoking in public; a fifth want to ban it even in private.

A mistrial has been ruled in the Roger Clemens perjury trial and the judge may rule that a retrial would constitute double jeopardy.

It’s still politics as usual in Washington.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

The White House has apparently rejected using a tortured interpretation of the 14th Amendment to deal with the debt ceiling debate.

The US Supreme Court declined to stay the execution of a child raping murderer over a technical violation of a treaty.

Not surprisingly, people still order that big juicy cheeseburger even after being told it contains over 1,000 calories.

There’s apparently a new proposal on the table at the debt negotiations, and it looks very interesting.

The biggest news story of the past six weeks was something completely trivial.

More people are chasing careers in film than there are careers in film. And not just in front of the camera.