Outside the Beltway

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

The Postal Service announced another round of service cutbacks today that are likely to just make the rapidity of its decline increase

The Associated Press is trying to fight Twitter rather than engage it.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

Penn State is cleaning house, including the legendary Joe Paterno.

Why does wine get so much more written treatment than beer?

Should we be outraged over the manner in which Muammar Gaddafi died? I’m not losing any sleep over it.

Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faces obstacles its Tea Party counterpart didn’t.

And, the week closes out with another round of rumors about New Jersey’s Governor.

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

Not every 10th anniversary of a horrible surprise attack has been treated the same.

The very question is rather dubious.

Like the rest of us, financial analysts across the globe are trying to figure out what the U.S. debt downgrade means.

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.

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

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, says fundamentalist Christians are a far bigger problem than Muslims. And, no, he’s not anti-religion.

In a decision released yesterday. the New Jersey Supreme Court clarified the journalist/blogger distinction somewhat.

Business Week has a fascinating profile of Dietrich Mateschitz, whom they dub “Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac.”

Is lunch necessary? It’s not really where the conversation is.

The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.

Local newspapers in Belgium inexplicably don’t want to be linked by Google and are using copyright law rather than a robots.txt file to enforce their wishes.

Sunday’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden was the latest example of how Twitter has become the go-to source for “Breaking News.”

The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.

You thought the birther insanity was over? Silly you.

In all honesty, much of what is coming out of the mouths of self-described conservatives is actually pretty darn radical.

Ann Coulter says its time for Birthers to shut up.

“Internet addiction” is a made-up malady.

Donald Trump, who may or may not be running for President, is continuing his strange obsession with the birther myth, and reminding Republicans that two years of silence in the face of lunacy may come back to bite them.

While complaints that there’s too much information for intellectuals to sort through, much less read, are constant, they’re not new. Harvard historian Ann Blair argues in her new book Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age that this stress goes back at least to Seneca’s time.

While there are doubtless flaws with the journalistic values and culture of the New Media, we too often contrast today with a Golden Age of Media that never existed.

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.

Mob Boss Tommy Shots Gioeli Blogs From Jail

New York Times writer Adam Liptak discovers that a Supreme Court decision protecting “corporate speech” might not be a bad thing considering that he works for a corporation.