Outside the Beltway

Texas A&M professor finds serious flaws in college faculty productivity study.

A new study finds that college tuition costs could be cut in half if lazy professors got off their butts.

Tim Pawlenty’s new fiscal plan isn’t very grounded in reality.

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.”

Comparing Obama to Carter on foreign policy (especially in terms of electoral politics) doesn’t make sense.

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

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.

The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.

Apple isn’t the only company collecting data off their smartphones.

Mobile homes account for nearly half of all tornado deaths in the United States.

While the pace of modern life is in many ways faster than ever, the golden age of speed was decades ago.

Public disclosure of campaign contributions makes it easier for incumbents to pressure backers of their opponent.

Can most people learn the traits to be highly successful in business?

For a small group of people—perhaps just 1% to 3% of the population—sleep is a waste of time.

Video entertainment is moving in two seemingly opposite directions simultaneously.

Paul Ryan unveiled an ambitious plan to cut the deficit today. The question is whether it will be the beginning of a debate, or an opportunity for Democratic demagoguery

Cruise lines are the latest to create separate enclaves for customers willing to pay more to escape the riffraff.

Natural disasters in Japan have lessened the supply of pigments necessary to make black paint.

Shailagh Murray becomes the latest reporter to join the Obama White House.

Wisconsin Republicans stripped state employees of collective bargaining rights without the Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a quorum.

The Democrats appear ready to come home (or, as per the update, maybe not).

Republicans are about to take a walk along the third-rail of American politics.

As the standoff in Wisconsin drags on, there is no sign that the public accepts the argument being made about public sector unions by Governor Scott Walker and other Republicans.

More evidence of what we already knew: the public isn’t especially interested in cutting entitlements.

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.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

The Wall Street Journal is joining the modern era and dropping the practice of referring to people as “Mr.” and “Ms.” But only on the sports pages.

We can’t rely on private companies, the stock market, or the taxpayers to maintain our lifestyle in our golden years.

The American right has become infected with the notion that Barack Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil. That won’t be healthy in the long run.

Ten days is not a lot of time for constitutional reform.

Four years after Barack Obama became a Presidential candidate, the birther myth not only persists, it seems to be becoming more prevalent. Why?

Michael Medved wishes that conservatives would stop implying that the President of the United States wants to destroy the United States.

Amy Chua captured the two things we fear most: the Chinese and our children.