Outside the Beltway

Some French politicians and intellectuals seem offended that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being treated like a common criminal.

With Huckabee out, the right side of the GOP primary base may end up divided. And that will help Mitt Romney.

Video calling is becoming widely available. Will it become as common as talking on the phone?

President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after Osama bin Laden was killed two weeks ago. They’ve already settled back to where they were

With a Federal ban on sales of incandescent light bulbs fast approaching, manufacturers are still scrambling to invent suitable substitutes.

The French Mistake Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

What are the options regarding the debt ceiling?

Ohio State researchers: ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs.

General Donn Starry and the Army of the 1970s.

Requiring people with ethical conflicts to disclose them leads to more bad behavior, not less, a new study finds.

As of today, the United States is legally barred from borrowing money to finance its operations. Thanks for nothing, Congress.

The ICC may issue a warrant for Gaddafi.

With co-frontrunner Mike Huckabee out, Mitt Romney looks stronger than ever.

Time for the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

It’s Campaign Fact of Life No. 1: If you aren’t a factor in the race, you aren’t going to get free media.

Mike Huckabee’s decision not to run has shaken up the GOP field for 2012.

Are we safer in high population areas?

Academic publishers want to end the Fair Use of scholarly journal articles in the classroom.

We won’t have Mike Huckabee to kick around in 2012.

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

Bill Clinton thinks some sort of government agency should do somethingorother about rumors on the Internet.

For as long as the notion of individual rights has existed, one of them has been the sanctity one’s home. As of Thursday, that’s no longer true in Indiana.