Outside the Beltway

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American troops may now earn the fourth highest combat medal from the comfort of their desk chair.

North Korea has conducted its third test of a nuclear weapon.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

It may have made sense to subsidize rural mail delivery once, that may not longer be the case?

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

A Tel Aviv woman found her car towed and a handicapped parking space painted around where she’d left it.

January’s Jobs Report wasn’t much to write home about

I have over the years been both editor and edited; currently, I’m both, often in the same day. Some thoughts on the relationship.

A retired Marine gunny argues that women should not be in the infantry since they’re not in the National Football League.

The New York Times breaks the shocking story (“That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think”) that cats kill birds and small mammals.

David Brooks has an idea that only David Brooks could love.

The GOP seems to be drawing all the wrong lessons from the 2012 elections.

Republicans continue to fight over their party’s future.

Government-mandated paid sick leave might improve both public health and the American economy.

The Weekly Standard is proud that Mitt Romney’s intentionally false Jeep ad was technically true.

President Obama has unveiled a set of restrictions that wouldn’t have stopped the Sandy Hook Massacre. Some are nonetheless be good policy.

The NRA is calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing armed guards in schools while sending his own girls to school with armed guards.

Monday, The Atlantic published and took down a sponsored article from the church of Scientology. Yesterday, it admitted it had “screwed up.”

Lance Armstrong finally confessed something pretty much everyone assumed was true.

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

Basically, it’s inconsistent with the strategy.

Killing their leaders doesn’t seem to be impacting the ability of jihadi groups to recruit and motivate more terrorists.

The Speaker’s version of what went down during the negotiations does not make the Speaker look good.

Cory Booker’s decision to explore a run for the U.S. Senate has upset the powers-that-be in New Jersey Democratic politics.

Arab news giant Al-Jazeera is buying Al Gore’s failing Current TV network, hoping to get a bigger presence in the US cable market.

Apparently, John Boehner was somewhat displeased with the negotiating process.

Automatic tax hikes and spending cuts took effect at midnight. A deal involving the executive and half of the legislative branch could largely reverse them.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?