Outside the Beltway

Anti-government protests raged in Egypt for a second day, and nobody seems to know where they’re headed.

Does Russia really spend more on roads than we do?

The initial instant reaction to the President’s speech last night was largely positive, but does it really matter?

Michele Bachmann’s TEA Party response to SOTU 2011 was embarrassingly bad.

First impressions of the 2011 State of the Union address.

In chapter three of Liberty and Tyranny, Mark Levin applies his typical standards of logic and evidence to matters of faith.

Volokh Conspirator Stewart Baker wonders whether Jesse Ventura’s complaints about TSA groping making him a “wussy.”

The US drug policy gang: Dopey, Boozy, Smokey and Stupid?

An Ohio woman was convicted of two felony counts for sending her kids to good schools.

After years of flying people for less than it cost and trying to make it up with volume, the airlines have changed course.

The Illinois Supreme Court has issued a partial stay, keeping Rahm Emanuel on the ballot for Chicago mayor.

Actor Alec Baldwin is among hundreds being targeted by New York City for tax evasion. Is it reasonable to have to prove where you live?

Thomas Lowry fraudulently altered the date of an 1864 pardon from Abraham Lincoln to make it look like it was written on the date of his 1864 assassination.

Clarence Thomas has amended 13 years’ worth of disclosure reports.

Antonin Scalia hasn’t attended the State of the Union address in a decade and will continue that tradition tonight.

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.

The night before the State Of The Union Address, Barack Obama is in a far better position than many people thought he’d be after November’s election results.

Once again, it looks like efforts to reform the Senate’s filibuster rules have fallen victim to that old devil politics.

The home mortgage interest deduction benefits Democrat-voting states most! Is the fix in?

The Illinois Appellate Court has tossed mayoral frontrunner Rahm Emanuel off the ballot, saying he didn’t meet residency requirements.

Here’s how terrorists get past airport security: don’t bother to go through it.

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.