Outside the Beltway

Bob Knight coached Mike Krzyzewski at West Point. Now, Coach K has broken his mentor’s record for all-time victories as a head coach.

As if we needed another child rape scandal involving a famous institution of higher learning . . .

Michele Bachmann is looking for a few good staffers for the Granite State.

The post-Gaddafi era has been made permanent. What comes next?

The BBC is reporting that rebels claim to have captured the ousted leader of Libya.

Breaking news: There’s a gay man in Hollywood.

Robert Downey, Jr. goes out on a limb for Mel Gibson, returning a favor.

Herman Cain is leading Mitt Romney in two respected polls.

The Justice Department claims to have disrupted a major Iranian-backed terrorist attack in the United States.

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Texas is ending the time-honored tradition of allowing condemned men to pick their last meal before being put to death.

College towns and lily white enclaves top the list of best educated cities.

A record 46 million Americans are living in poverty.

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

A Wisconsin DOT official sent out a memo telling DMV staffers not to volunteer the availability of free voter identification cards.

The world is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Not only is the US outspending all our allies and competitors combined in real dollars on defense, we’re doing so in terms of GDP as well.

The 30-year bond has actually gained more than a point in early trading after the S&P downgrade!

Lost in the hubbub of S&P downgrading the US bond rating is news that the Italian government has the ratings agencies under criminal investigation.

Another round of economic statistics raises questions about the health of the economy.

Economic figures released today demonstrate clearly why the irresponsible talk surrounding the debt ceiling must end.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

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.

The White House has apparently rejected using a tortured interpretation of the 14th Amendment to deal with the debt ceiling debate.

The US handing Libya over to NATO is “like Beyonce saying she’s ceding control to Sasha Fierce!” – Jon Stewart

Is Gaddafi offering a way out?

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.