Outside the Beltway

Romney wants to make a federalism based argument for why his MA health care bill is good, while the PPACA is tyrannical. However, just saying that is not an argument.

An increasing number of bright observers are questioning the notion that everyone needs to go to college.

With the Draft only 27 days away, multiple lawsuits pending, and the lockout only in force for a few weeks, the NFL announced that an agreement on a new CBA had been reached with players.

President Obama’s new budget involves nothing less than a thumb in the eye of anyone who hoped he would seriously address federal spending in his first term.

As the night of the State Of The Union Address approaches, the silliness in Washington has been taken up a notch.

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech was, like a political stump speech, crafted and polished over months and years of delivery.

We’re producing more PhDs and JDs than there are full time openings for professors and lawyers.

The filibuster reform package that Senate Democrats unveiled yesterday has much to recommend to it. Unfortunately, it’s probably doomed.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

Gustavus Adolphus College librarian Barbara Fister explains why she loves getting rid of books.

There’s a trend toward using metrics to identify ways to stem the skyrocketing cost of higher education. The likeliest result is to devalue the “education” component.

Politico says 99 Democratic House seats are “in play.” They’re not. But dozens are.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.

Are we facing a Sharia take-over?

Robert Lane Greene investigates the rise of acronyms, initialisms, and other informal shortenings of speech.

A new poll indicates that there are some disturbing motivations that seem to be associated with opposition to the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.”

Glenn Greenwald argues that the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate is about more than just a “mosque” near Ground Zero. He’s right, but that also means the debate is likely to get uglier.

America’s obsession over the fate of the Burlington Coat Factory in Lower Manhattan, and a general rise in anti-Islamic rhetoric, plays right into the hands of the people that are actually our enemies.

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

Portland authorities have decided, for a second time, that there isn’t enough evidence to charge Al Gore with sexual assault in a 2006 case.

The Lt. Governor of Tennessee suggested recently that religious freedom possibly shouldn’t apply to Muslims, but he’s only part of the problem.

Some lawyers make a fabulous salary right out of law school. Most don’t.

You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.

The White House is making some very odd political choices in its response to the Arizona immigration law.

Did LeBron James pick Miami because of income taxes ? Probably not.

One year ago today, Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska after only 2 1/2 years in office.