Outside the Beltway

Kobe Bryant is one of only five NBA players to score 30,000 points and the youngest to achieve the milestone.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

Will your Yelp review land you in court?

Want to teach political science for a living? Go to one of a handful of top schools or don’t bother.

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies, explaining that raising children is easier than it used to be, so there’s really no excuse for women to be so selfish.

Congress is trying to re-write a law that the Supreme Court found unconstitutional in June. Have they succeeded?

NATO has agreed to deploy Patriot missiles along the Turkey-Syria border to protect Turkish airspace and territory, while making clear no escalation is intended.

In a show of marketing savvy that put Detroit where it is, Lincoln is rebranding itself as Lincoln.

It seems that FreedomWorks is imploding in the wake of Dick Armey’s sudden resignation.

The New York Post splashed the photo of a man pushed in front of a train on their cover.

Outgoing Senator Jim Webb is making another attempt at passing the Stolen Valor Act, deemed unconstitutional last year by the US Supreme Court.

Elections put the players in office. They don’t dictate the outcome of the game.

House Speaker John Boehner has purged the body’s key financial committees of members of his caucus that didn’t toe the line.

Actress Ashley Judd is reportedly considering a run for the United States Senate.

Dick Armey has resigned as chairman of Tea Party group FreedomWorks over unspecified principles.

Perhaps we should take a pass on trying to reach a deal on resolving issues propelling us toward the Fiscal Cliff.

Whenever a Republican mentions the ‘Bush tax cuts,’ they should also talk about going back to the ‘Clinton tax rates.’

A photograph of a New York cop putting boots on a homeless man went viral. The man remains bootless, however.

The new psychiatric diagnostic manual does away with some common ailments and adds some new ones.

Vilifying Thomas Jefferson is as much as mistake as placing him on a pedestal.

In a NYT op-ed titled “The Monster of Monticello” Paul Finkelman expresses his befuddlement that people play down Thomas Jefferson’s legacy as a slave owner.

Ronald Reagan won the tax fight. The debate now centers on whether to continue cutting taxes or slightly reverse the trend.