Outside the Beltway

UPS and FedEx underestimated their capacity needs and failed to deliver packages in time for Christmas.

In a new interview, Edward Snowden explains his motives for absconding from the country with NSA secrets.

Another day, another delay.

Newly disclosed details about the US role in Colombia.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

Ron Fournier sees major similarities but ignores key differences.

For a year that seemed to start out so well, 2013 has been among the President’s worst of this five years he’s been in office.

The defense authorization law requires the Defense Department to go back to a single camouflage pattern.

Thanks to current patent and drug regulation laws, we’re paying up to $2,000 for a drug when there’s a drug that does the same thing for orders of magnitude less.

The Supreme Court may have just given a boost to those who want to subject online sales to the same sales taxes as in-person sales.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

A third term for any of these guys? Don’t count on it.

The Justice Department is reportedly not planning to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in connection with the Bradley Manning case.

The trends in President Obama’s approval numbers are not moving in the direction he ought to want them to go.

The mounting troubles of the PPACA continue.

Does the Attorney General really think advocacy is a crime?

The Imperial Presidency didn’t start with Barack Obama, but his PPACA “fix” does much to expand it into questionable new territory.

A contrite President Obama offered a “fix” for one of the biggest problems that the PPACA has created.

With just over two weeks today, rumors are starting to float out that the efforts to fix the Federal Exchange website may not be done in time.

Ken Cuccinelli still hasn’t called to congratulate Terry McAuliffe. Why does this odd custom continue?

The news that Obama aides discussed a change to the 2012 ticket is part of the latest Halperin/Heilemann campaign history.

Some interesting polls out of Virginia today, but McAuliffe is still the clear leader in this race.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

There’s still a week to go in Virginia’s Governor’s race, but it’s clear that this race is effectively over.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to have soured in recent years.

Two veteran reporters, including the dean of the Virginia press corps, have been fired by the AP after falsely reporting that Terry McAuliffe lied to federal authorities.

Absent an unlikely major change, it looks like the Democrats will win the Governor’s race in Virginia

John Boehner’s position as Speaker of the House seems quite secure.

So much for the most transparent Administration in history.

Republicans appear to be uniting behind a short-term plan to deal with the debt ceiling, but seem okay with keeping the government shutdown going forward.

Signs that investors are starting to get nervous about the lack of action coming out of Washington.

63% are angry at Republicans, 57% are angry at Democrats, and 53% are angry at President Obama.

The Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia wants a quick end to the Government Shutdown.

There’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.

Chris Christie had some words about the crisis in D.C., and they almost sound like they could be part of a 2016 campaign message

With just hours to go, the Republicans on Capitol Hill seem prepared to take a big political risk.

The federal government won’t have money to pay its workers come Tuesday but it’ll spend like a drunken sailor on Monday.