Outside the Beltway

Former Oregon governor and long-time US Senator Mark Hatfield has died.

The job approval numbers for Congress are at historic lows, but will that matter in 2012?

Rumors of Timothy Geithner’s departure from the Treasury Department may have been exaggerated.

One year ago, Timothy Geithner said them things about the economy he probably wishes he could take back right now.

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.

It is always useful to go inside the numbers.

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.

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.

Cornel West is a bright and accomplished man. He has his PhD from Princeton and has inspired bidding wars between prestigious universities for his services. But, man, he’s out there.

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.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

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

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.

The Obama campaign is stressing that 98 percent of its donations were from little guys contributing $250 or less. But 40 percent of the money came from a handful of major donors.

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

Tim Pawlenty was the first major Republican to enter the 2012 race. He may well be the first to quit. If so, it may take a while to notice.

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

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

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

A few liberal law professors say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should resign now so President Obama can pick her successor.

The New York Times keeps digging up new facts about yesterday’s shocking reversal in the Dominque Strauss-Kahn case.

Remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the arrogant French aristocrat whose career was ended by a courageous chambermaid, shedding light on a corrupt social system? A funny thing happened on the way to the slammer.

President Obama wants a million hybrid cars on the road by 2015. That’s easier said than done.

Barack Obama’s leadership style may be his undoing.

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

Another major campaign finance case from the Supreme Court.

A new study indicates that college degrees lead to higher wages even in fields that do not require a degree.

Jack Kirby’s heir are trying to posthumously renegotiate half-century old deals with Marvel.

If someone had given me ten guesses as to the biggest electricity hog in my house, I’d have never guessed it: The set-top box that houses my DirecTV signal and DVR.

Recent polls seem to indicate a shift in public opinion in a more libertarian direction.

When everyone can record video at any time and post it for all the world to see, is there such a thing as privacy anymore?

Daily Show host Jon Stewart spent 15 minutes on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace trying to explain why he thinks Fox is a propaganda machine.

President Obama overruled his top legal advisors in deciding that the Libya operation does not amount to “hostilities” under the War Powers Act.