Outside the Beltway

A cute protest sign based on a blog quip has created a minor internet sensation.

AP does a FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries? The answer: Generally speaking, no. But it’s complicated.

The Maryland Terrapins upset the Miami Hurricanes 32-24 last night in college football’s opening weekend. But all anyone is talking about is the ugly uniforms.

There are 164 technically acceptable transliterations of the name of Libya’s soon-to-be-former dictator.

So, you want a career in foreign policy field and are weighing your options….

Has a precedent been set for future requests by the President to increase the debt ceiling?

A profile of George Mason economist and blogger Tyler Cowen offers this amusing description: “Cowen, 49, has round features, a hesitant posture, and an unconcerned haircut.”

LTC Michael Holmes, the fellow who accused LTG William Caldwell of ordering him to perform psychological operations on Members of Congress, is not trained in psyops.

Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.

Rep. Jane Harman is leaving Congress to become president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak responded to mass unrest by cutting off his people from the outside world. Do we really want an American President to have the same power?

The current approach of the GOP to health care is not dissimilar to its approach to fiscal policy: not a lot of substance.

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

The American military personnel system works against keeping the best and brightest officers in the service.

Peter Orszag, President Obama’s first budget director, is headed to Citigroup and a multimillion dollar salary.

The Onion spoofs life at a think tank with Boy, I Really Thought Like Shit Today.”

A Federal Judge in Florida has handed a significant, albeit procedural, victory to the opponents of ObamaCare.

Desperate Democrats demonize donors, facts be damned.

More on O’Donnell’s representation of her education in her own words.

DC schools superintendent Michelle Rhee has radically transformed the system for the better. Naturally, the teachers unions want her gone.

Newt Gingrich is drawing fire for his comments about that the President has a “Kenyan world view.” But, will Newt every pay the price for his inflammatory rhetoric ? Don’t count on it.

David Frum assesses the current state of right-of-center think tanks and the significance thereof.

Lost amidst the welcome news of British-French cooperation on military cost-sharing in some tough talk from their ministers of defense on NATO.

The Republican campaign against birthright citizenship doesn’t seem to be gaining the kind of support they expected.

Affluent, educated people in the DC policy community hold different views than the larger American public.

Ten Russian agents posing as Americans and living in the suburbs of DC, New York, and Boston for a decade to glean valuable intelligence have been arrested by the FBI.

The House Democrats have just handed the GOP another issue to bash them with in the fall.