Outside the Beltway

A federal court has found that don’t ask, don’t tell violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

Has the digitization of entertainment — DVRs, iPods, iPods, digital cameras, Netflix, and so forth — transformed it from fun into work?

Comments sections on larger blogs seem inevitably to turn into cesspools. Is it worth trying to stop it happening?

It’s getting harder and harder to tell blogs from newspapers.

According to Paul Krugman’s latest column, the massive destruction of World War Two was actually good for the U.S. economy. Sadly, there are people who consider him an expert.

Will Israel attack Iran ? You’d better hope not.

Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally raises, yet again, the tiresome fight over crowd estimates and their political significance.

For many reasons, the housing market is unlikely to fully recover for the foreseeable future.

The controversial Muslim center near Ground Zero may get public financing.

The New York Times realizes that most Republicans just don’t care that Ken Mehlman is gay. Surprise, neither do most Americans at this point.

The guy who ran George W. Bush’s campaign and the Republican National Committee has realized after only 43 years that he likes dudes.

America’s mission in Iraq is shifting from an active combat role to a smaller security presence. But the war that gripped our attention for years is now off the radar screen.

Glenn Greenwald asks, “Why won’t the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents?” For the same reason we don’t negotiate with terrorists.

The United States has promised $150 million in aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan. Should we have?

The New York Times is reporting that the Obama Administration has convinced Israel that Iran is much further away from developing nuclear weapons than Tel Aviv fears, but there seems to be something else going on here.

The Associated Press tells its reports to stop using the phrase “Ground Zero Mosque.” That’s a good thing.

Either Obama’s Defense Secretary and commanding general are conspiring to undermine his July 11 deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan or that they’re carrying out his intent.

Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.

Free parking is a very inefficient use of land resources that wouldn’t exist without government mandates and subsidies. Is it time to end the practice?

Barack Obama has significantly widened his predecessor’s global war on terrorism, even if he’s no longer calling it that.

Senior staffers are already leaving the Obama administration due to burn-out. But are 18-hour days really necessary for running the White House?

Another round of primaries last night made the playing field for November just a little bit clearer to see.

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

Congress has been wrestling with the net neutrality issue for years. Two major players may force a decision soon.

Blogs are all grown up now and indistinguishable from other online media.

When I saw Esquire’s headline, “A Rather Strange Conversation with William Shatner,” my thought was, Is there any other kind?

The FBI is mad that Wikipedia has published a copy of its seal on their site.

Twenty-five years after retiring as President Reagan’s Budget Director, David Stockman is back with a scathing indictment of Republican fiscal policies over the past four decades.

American Conservatism has changed significantly since the days of William F. Buckley Jr. One former National Review editor says that it’s changed for the worse.

General Motors, and Barack Obama, are betting the future on a car that may be nothing more than an electric lemon.

Some number of people are staying married while living separate lives. This is, apparently, news.

Yes, a lot of people are dying on the Arizona border, but the cause is not the drug war. Rather, it is simple fact that crossing the desert on foot is a dangerous proposition. (And this is not a new phenomenon).

Three different ways they’re viewing the leaked “war logs” across the Pond.

Will the Wikileaks document dump give even further impetus to the growing sentiment that the United States needs to leave Afghanistan ?

The scumbags at WikiLeaks have published a huge trove of classified documents provided to them by one or more traitors in our military.

According to Maureen Dowd, Barack Obama’s biggest problem is that there are too many white people in this picture.

Depending on which papers you read, the British NHS is undergoing minor restructuring, secretly planning major cuts in basic services, or doing nothing of concern.

Daniel Schorr’s journalism career ended far too early, lasting a mere eighty-one years.

If it’s online, it’s forever.

JournoList’s archives have been making headlines at The Daily Caller, but there doesn’t seem to be any substance to the allegations of scandal.

Andrew Sullivan is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.