Outside the Beltway

New York’s police commissioner admits that his officers recklessly wounded 9 innocent bystanders at the Empire State Building yesterday.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

The Romney/Ryan ticket has gained grown in Wisconsin and Florida, and is steady in Ohio, but they’ve got a Medicare problem.

A federal judge has ruled that poker is a game of skill and that therefore betting money on it is not gambling.

The candidates aren’t talking about the war in Afghanistan very much, but that’s mostly because the American people don’t want them to.

When and how often must they disclose their relationship? And can we take them seriously at all?

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

While Republicans talk about family values, Chuck Schumer is busy promoting them one staffer at a time.

Jon Corzine appears to be about to get a ‘Get Out Of Jail Free” card.

The Obama campaign has begun to respond to the addition of Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket.

Is the the 2012 Republican Presidential ticket? We’ll find out Saturday morning.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Three new polls show President Obama leading in three key battleground states.

The novelist, playwright, and social critic Gore Vidal has died, aged 86.

Mitt Romney faces an uphill battle in trying to get to that magic number of 270 Electoral Votes.

As public education continues to wallow in the past, some parents are looking elsewhere for alternatives.

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

The GDP report shows the economy slowed in the second quarter, to the surprise of nobody.

There are still three months or so go. The race is incredibly tight. And, voters are starting to really dislike both candidates.

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.

What happened in 1970 to decouple wages and productivity?

Some interesting developments in Pyongyang.

Two liberal columnists say a recent Mitt Romney ad proves he’s out of touch—and implies that he’s running a racist stealth campaign.

Mitt Romney has had a rough two weeks, but Barack Obama has to deal with a bad economy.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

The prosecutor in George Zimmernan’s case has made public “evidence” that will likely never be admitted at trial, but which could prejudice the case immensely.

Reporters covering the 2012 election are letting the campaigns control what they report to a disturbing degree.

There are some indications that Mitt Romney may be ready to announce his running mate selection as early as this week.

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the New York Times has found that it’s easier to raise children if there are two parents and two incomes than one parent and one income.

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

There’s very little evidence or logic to support the attacks coming from the right against Chief Justice Roberts.

It’s never a good thing when an Administration is investigating itself.

Men who graduate elite universities earn an additional $107,000 lifetime. It costs $234,440 to get a Yale degree.

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.