Outside the Beltway

Last night’s preseason opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cincinnati Bengals was the worst sports broadcast I’ve ever seen, barring any recent Olympics.

Turnabout is fair play: Strippers are picketing a church that’s picketing their strip club.

A mere thirty years after the Rubik’s Cube craze died out, a team of math geeks has proven once and for all that the puzzle can be solved in 20 moves or less from any position.

Tish Long, the new director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is the first woman to head a major U.S. intelligence agency.

Are government imposed mandates making it impossible for businesses to justify hiring new workers?

Despite 9.5% unemployment, American firms are struggling to find qualified applicants for job openings.

For-profit universities are defrauding their students. Indeed, it’s their business model.

Time for the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

Remember when dealing with the utterances of Hugo Chávez that you should take them with a grain of salt (or twelve).

Hezbollah can tolerate the restoration of a synagogue, but many Americans are apoplectic about a Muslim community center and mosque two blocks from where the WTC once stood.

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

Colombia has sworn in a new president. And so begins the Santos era as the Uribe era heads for the history books.

The Republican campaign against birthright citizenship doesn’t seem to be gaining the kind of support they expected.

Lenders and Borrowers seem poised to make the same mistakes that brought about the last Housing Bubble all over again.

According to health inspectors in Portland, Oregon, this little girl is potentially a threat to your health and safety.

Google has an inordinate amount of information about you and your circle of friends.

It’s rumored that Rick Gervais, who starred in the British original version of “The Office,” will reprise his role of David Brent and replace Steve Carrell on the American version of the show.

German government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams says that the amount of stress in the world is constant, with relief always transferred to another person or another time.

Wherein only one of the various consequences of altering the current status of birthright citizenship is considered: more paperwork for us all.

Is the GOP really serious about changing the citizenship rules in the 14th Amendment ? Not likely.

The Republican Party is keeping relatively quiet on the Proposition 8 ruling. That’s a good idea.

The First Family can go on vacation, but politics never does.

Should we abandon the notion of civil marriage? Would doing so end the clash over homosexual unions?

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says there is no governmental or public interest in continuing a ban on gay marriage. But what about the will of his constituents?

Are we nearing the point where presidents won’t be able to fill Supreme Court vacancies?

Paul Krugman’s Medicare projections don’t line up with what the actuaries are telling us.

Two Florida teens have been arrested for being in possession of naked pictures of themselves.

Sharron Angle’s views about the role of religion in politics are disturbingly similar to those of people who believe that the Bible itself should be the law of the land.

This year’s Zogby poll of public opinion in the Middle East exhibits a marked shift on the Obama Administration, Iran.

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

Americans get apoplectic at stories of police officers shooting people’s pets but seem unphased when they shoot innocent human beings.

That attitudes towards gay marriage varies by state won’t surprise you. The degree to which it does just might.

Another bad jobs report demonstrates that the “recovery” is an illusion for many people.

Saddam Hussein’s closest adviser in the 1990s, Tariq Aziz, is talking to reporters, and he wants American troops to stay in Iraq.

Mitch McConnell and Al Franken provide a lesson in Senate comity.

Council of Economic Advisors chair Christina Romer becomes the latest senior official to leave the Obama White House.

November’s elections will set modern records for most Senate seats and governorships on the ballot.