Outside the Beltway

A lot of people appear confused at to what the debt ceiling is and why it has to be raised.

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.”

An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.

Is our current economic situation the result of massive government intervention? The Randians certainly think so.

Glenn Beck will leave his Fox News show in December.

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

Michelle Malkin is unhappy about being part of joke on Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.

How many Americans are really even paying attention to the actions in Libya?

Republican budget cuts to this point have been less than serious.

So far, the Republican House’s effort to cut back Federal spending isn’t very impressive.

The NPR vote was nothing more than political theatrics–and it violated a GOP campaign promise to boot.

Glenn Beck’s own website discovers some interesting, and ethically disturbing, editing in the latest round of video’s from “ACORN Pimp”James O’Keefe.

NPR is a collection of local stations, not a single station. And it’s run that way.

Of the 314 police and firefighter unions in Wisconsin, only four endorsed Scott Walker.

The situation in Bahrain continues to evolve as the state has pulled back the stick.

Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne has succumbed to the inevitable at the ripe old age of 96.

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

Gabriellie Giffords, a three-term Arizona Congresswoman, was shot and killed today along with six others outside a campaign event in Tuscon.

The Presidency has lost the aura of mystique that used to surround it, and that’s a good thing.

Amid signs that Democrats in Congress might rebel against the tax cut deal he struck with Republicans, President Obama took to the airwaves today to defend it at the same time that his base is rebelling against it.

Washington City Paper editor Michael Schaffer has put out a satiric memo mocking the policies NPR and others have issued to reporters regarding this weekend’s Jon Stewart – Stephen Colbert rallies

Tumblr called “Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things” shows that there’s no such thing as “Muslim garb.”

The firing of Juan Williams from NPR has led many conservatives to call for an end to government subsidies. As is often the case, they’re right but for the wrong reasons.

Apparently Juan Williams is really, really, really important.

Mickey Kaus quips, “Andrew Sullivan has “small staff of four people to help him handle the blog” says NPR. Er, what’s a “big” staff for a blog? . . . In ten short years Sullivan’s created a bloated blog bureaucracy! “

NPR says it fired Juan Williams for remarks that were “inconsistent” with its editorial standards. In reality, it appears that Williams was the victim of the same convenient editing that cost Shirley Sherrod her job earlier this year.

NPR has fired Juan Williams over controversial comments about Muslims.

Actor Tom Bosley, best known for his role as Howard Cunningham on TV’s “Happy Days,” had died at 83.

Should members of the Armed Forces and other public employees have the same rights under the 1st Amendment as the rest of us? Or should they be more like journalists?

Craig Newmark thinks NPR’s membership model will overtake advertising-supported news over the next decade.

Both Congress and the Obama Administration have stepped up enforcement of immigration laws–at immense cost to both the budget and the courts.

The media is now starting to look at it’s own role in the whole Koran burning story, but the truth is that there really wasn’t any way they could’ve ignored the story.

Epic flooding in Pakistan is a humanitarian crisis which dwarfs the combined devastation of the 2004 Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Why aren’t we paying attention?

Should FOX News, which is obviously pro-Republican, have a front row seat in the White House press room? Of course.

A small slice of what people at the epicenter of the Park51 controversy have to say.