Outside the Beltway

Bradley Manning will learn his fate at 1 pm tomorrow. He’s guilty.

Conservatives are doing what they criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

The AHA is calling for a six-year embargo of history dissertations.

University of Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison has been suspended after barking at a police dog.

The Oval Office Address, once a common tool of the Presidency, has been in declining use of late.

Texas has become the latest state to attempt to restrict abortion rights, and North Carolina isn’t far behind.

A new study says Twitter doesn’t break news faster than the wires. But nobody claims it does.

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting piece out today in the Columbia Law Review.

The prominent media critic will no longer bother criticizing CNN for not living up to the standards of the profession.

An empty threat.

Focusing on Edward Snowden is largely a waste of time.

Despite an extradition request from the United States, Edward Snowden left Hong Kong overnight on a flight to Moscow and parts unknown.

Apparently, the prospect of a thousand pound fine isn’t enough to persuade Bristol’s dog owners to clean up after their pooches.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

It’s time to take a look at the pre-trial issues in what is likely to be the trial of the Summer of 2013.

Should bloggers be treated the same as “journalists” for the purpose of the protections granted by media shield laws?

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

The Virginia GOP’s nominee for Lt. Governor could pose a problem for the party.

A San Francisco bacon restaurant smells like bacon. Thankfully, a compromise has been reached.

A generation of kids with massive student loans and no prospects is bad news for the status quo.

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

Republicans are fighting over how best to deal with their demographic problems, but they seem to be fighting the wrong battle.

The noted wine critic Robert Parker recently forayed into reviewing bourbon and came under intense fire from enthusiasts of American whiskey.

With its most recent “upgrade,” Gmail has become much less useful to its best customers.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.