Outside the Beltway

Three years later, there are no signs that the real estate market is anywhere close to recovering.

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.

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

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).

Donald Rumsfeld famously worked standing up. He was on to something.

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

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 story that GE paid zero taxes last year despite mega-billion dollar profits is completely untrue.

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.”

Prejudice and negative attitudes towards obese individuals is becoming a global norm, not just an American phenomenon.

The U.S. seems to be on the verge of changing war strategies in Libya, even as it becomes clear that these rebels aren’t necessarily our friends.

Presenting photo identification is not an onerous requirement for voting. But there’s next to zero evidence that fraud is a problem.

A handful of young male bloggers have launched themselves to the head of the line, leapfrogging those who’ve spent years playing the game by the old rules.juice

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.

Is asking to see a professor’s e-mails a legitimate open records request or is it an attempt at silencing a critic?

GE made $14.2 billion in profits last year but paid zero corporate taxes to the United States Government. Legally.

The last chapter of nonfiction books is almost always lousy. Here’s why.

The uneasy coalition that coalesced around action in Libya will be strained by decisions to come.

Egyptian voters have approved amendments to Egypt’s constitution.

Experts say the phone call is a relic of the past.

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

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

New York Times journalists Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks, and Lynsey Addario have not been heard from in more than 24 hours.

Alain Juppé’s concession that “the moment has passed” for NATO to successfully intervene in Libya is correct.

Automated programs are getting very good at poker and are winning large sums on online gambling sites.

Facebook limits accounts to those who say that they are at least 13 years old. Shockingly, some kids lie to get on the popular social network.

Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake, which in turned spawned a tsunami.

We’ve been hearing about peak oil for years. But now some experts are warning of an even more serious crisis: Peak coffee.

The Democrats appear ready to come home (or, as per the update, maybe not).

Pfc. Bradley Manning is being treated worse than a Prisoner Of War, and he hasn’t been convicted of a crime yet.

Why is Charlie Sheen seen as likable despite his serial abuse of women?

The saga of accused Wikileaks conspirator Bradley Manning continues to get uglier, with the military acknowledging that he was forced to spend the day naked for, well, no apparent reason.