Outside the Beltway

A brain dead woman in Texas is being kept alive while a fetus that is still not viable grows inside of her.

Thanks to a Federal District Court Judge, most of Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain.

Republicans have some good ideas about overhauling how they pick a nominee. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how most of them can be enforced.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases that implicates both the First Amendment and two Federal Laws.

Another government mandate that doesn’t address a real problem.

Was the Jobs Report released one month before Election Day 2012 rigged? Despite a new report, there’s no evidence to suggest that it was.

The FDA is declaring war on trans fats. That’s a bad idea on many levels.

A second Federal Court of Appeals in a week in two weeks has ruled the PPACA’s birth control mandate is unconstitutional.

Mayor Booker is now Senator-Elect Booker.

The situation we currently find oursevles in is very much driven by structural issues.

President Obama is trying to launch a war but there’s a lot of competition for attention.

The president’s public dithering on Syria is drawing jeers from friend and foe alike.

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is the latest conservative to endorse the foolish idea of a Constitutional Convention.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton gave a speech that will most likely be remembered as the start of her 2016 Presidential campaign.

A business move that signals the continuing death of the newspaper industry.

In a move that was perhaps inevitable, the City of Detroit has filed for Bankruptcy Court protection.

President Obama has appointed a lot of donor’s and supporters to plumb Ambassadorial slots. That’s not at all unusual.

Yesterday’s coup in Egypt, a day before we celebrate our own independence, reminds us of something else worth celebrating.

A song written when Grover Cleveland was President is still protected by Copyright Law. That makes no sense at all.

Getting the courts involved in the organ transplant issue could end up being a huge mistake.

Scientists have known for years that large quantities of supplemental vitamins can be quite harmful. Yet, the FDA is prohibited by law from telling the public.

Cory Booker is in the race for New Jersey’s open Senate seat, but is he really unbeatable?

Airport delays are the latest example of targeting sequestration cuts where the taxpayer will feel them most.

Emory’s James Wagner sees the 3/5 Compromise as the price for achieving a more perfect union.

If one is going to worship at the alter of original intent, it might be useful to know a bit of history.

Americans waste $121 billion a year because of traffic congestion.

Despite the push it’s likely to receive, most of President Obama’s gun control proposals will barely even see the light of day in Congress.

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

It’s time to panic over anonymous guys in Philadelphia again, at least if you work at Fox News Channel.

The case of an infant with a rare genetic condition raises an interesting ethical dilemma.