Outside the Beltway

The electoral map should be making the Obama 2012 camp just a little bit nervous.

Does the 10th Amendment contain the answer to the same-sex marriage debate? Not really.

It’s very easy to create a “balanced budget” when you cook the books.

Does a family court have the authority to tell a parent to delete a blog critical of his ex-wife?

Are the new crop of GOP governors too conservative?

What constitutes a true threat?

A majority of Americans want to ban smoking in public; a fifth want to ban it even in private.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

There’s apparently a new proposal on the table at the debt negotiations, and it looks very interesting.

It’s often said that 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe was a size 12. It just isn’t so.

Not exactly an example of moral leadership.

President Obama wants a million hybrid cars on the road by 2015. That’s easier said than done.

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

How many Texas politicians does it take to screw in a non-communist light bulb?

The vast majority of the seats in the Virginia legislature will not even be contested this November.

Catholic University president John Garvey explains “Why We’re Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms.”

Would it be unconstitutional for Congress to extend Mueller’s term?

Some people still think Mitt Romney’s religion is a relevant issue.

James Arness, best known as the iconic Marshal Dillon on Gunsmoke, has died at 88.

Commander Dave Koss, the head of the Navy’s Blue Angels, has “voluntarily” resigned after repeated unsafe maneuvers.

The next shoe has dropped in the battle between campaign finance laws and the 1st Amendment.

Thousands of pedestrians are killed in America each year. Are we doing enough about it?

The 4th Circuit has asked for supplemental briefs on an issue that could put a quick end to the lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

The first round of appellate arguments over the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act took place today in Richmond, Virginia.

Three years later, there are no signs that the real estate market is anywhere close to recovering.

The challenges to the Affordable Care Act will remain in the Courts of Appeals for now, but they’re still on a pretty fast track.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

“Internet addiction” is a made-up malady.

Michele Bachmann raised more money in the First Quarter of 2011 than any other Republican. Which means that she’ll have to be taken seriously if she decides to run for President.

Given the schedule they’re on in the Courts of Appeals, it is likely that the Supreme Court will rule on one or more of the lawsuits challenging the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act just before the start of the 2012 campaign.