Outside the Beltway

We can’t afford to repeatedly make the same mistake.

Sure, there’s a lot of crap out there. But it’s easier to find good information and engage with experts than ever.

Suddenly, it seems like every website known to man is foisting videos that play the instant the page loads on their readers.

Enough with the 57 states.

Save water: Grow a beard.

Newt is looking a bit toasty to me (not that that is a surprising position to take).

No, Ron Paul is not a viable candidate for president.

Foreign Policy’s David Kenner has a reading list for President Obama to help him get read for his big speech to recast our relationship with the Arab world. Topping the Persian Gulf section is Crossroads Arabia, by our own John Burgess.

And when did it know it?

The birthers are dead (kinda), so long live the transcripters!

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

At least 128 are dead, with the toll expected to rise, in the flurry of tornadoes that hit Alabama yesterday.

Obama’s main politics are hardly as leftist as many make them out to be. Indeed, much of them could have fit well in the the GOP of 1990s and early 2000s.

What’s the historic trend on dollar weakness?

Charles Krauthammer called Donald Trump the “Al Sharpton” of the GOP presidential primary contest

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

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

The lines between our public and professional identities and our private and social ones continue to blur.

The Media Bloggers Association has filed an amicus brief against a company which exists for the sole purpose of suing bloggers.

Should public schoolteachers make more money than the people paying their salaries?

I have banned a couple of serial violators in recent days after various warnings, deletions, and other signals failed to do the trick.

Predicting (after a fashion) what the SCOTUS will do with the PPACA and a return to the Commerce Clause and the activity/inactivity disucssion.

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

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.

Didn’t we just talk about this?

Today’s Foreign Desk includes comments on Brazil’s floods, developments in Ivory Coast, and Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal.

Ok, oh scolders, what is it you want us to be blogging about in lieu of discussing a certain Hockey Mom?

Brief takes on foreign affairs

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

Graphic by Sarah Palin’s PAC had Gabriel Giffords’ district in the crosshairs

When determining the effects on the deficit of a certain legislative action, both revenues and spending have to be accounted for. Indeed, you can’t determine whether there is a deficit, surplus or balanced budget without both variables.

I don’t like it when things my allies say are misquoted and attacked; it’s no better when my allies do it.

Some people in the D.C. area are worried that the Federal spending gravy train may be coming to an end. They should be.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Aaron Tobey stripped to his underdrawers in a Richmond, Virginia airport in support of the 4th Amendment.

Constitutional interpretation is easy, right?

Like it or not, the U.S. Constitution has always been a political document, evolving depending on the players on the stage.