Outside the Beltway

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.

Republicans are much closer to America’s political center than Democrats.

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

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.

One can be an elite and not be elitist and vice versa.

Many of us who have philosophical objections to public radio nonetheless like the results.

The latest poll trends have pollster Charlie Cook thinking that the Democrats could be in for a very bad trouncing on Election Day.

Did the American media cover up torture by the Bush Administration?

Elena Kagan is not telling the truth when she says her politics are “completely separate” from her judging.

LSU is facing some potential deep cuts in its budget.

Magazines routinely run great pieces by highly biased writers. Why can’t newspapers do the same?

Al Gore has been accused of sexually assaulting a “masseuse” in a Portland hotel room.