Outside the Beltway

Judging by the early results, the so-called “Right To Be Forgotten” recently created by Europe’s highest court is creating more problems than it will solve.

The law’s insane over-reaction to teen “sexting” has gotten even more insane in one Virginia County.

The NSA and FBI are doing more spy stuff.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.

Some people on the left are still trying to convince Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she needs to just step out on the ice floe already.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari took responsibility for the 7-1 loss to Germany.

What could possibly go wrong?

Does the NBA’s best player have first mover advantage? Or should he take his time?

Kickstarting a dream of potato salad to the tune of $40k+

A case out of Louisiana raises serious First Amendment issues.

Things look to be going from bad to worse in Gaza.

Thad Cochran has been officially certified as the winner of the Mississippi GOP Primary Runoff Election, but it’s not over yet.

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

My latest collaboration with Butch Bracknell, “Ahmed Abu Khattala and the Miranda-Rights Question,” has posted in The National Interest.

There’s a declared winner in Afghanistan’s Presidential Election, but a cloud hangs over the results.

All you have to do is make up unique password for each site based on randomly chosen details of an incredibly complex story associated with the first letter of the site.

Political irony, perhaps, but probably less than meets the eye.

There are legitimate issues regarding Presidential overreach and separation of powers that President Obama’s actions while in office have raised. But none of that will be discussed in our hyperpartisan political culture.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

More on instiutional design.

A piece at Foreign Policy provides a chance to give some thought to institutions.

Another area where the law has not caught up with technology.

A new poll shows that Americans don’t buy into the idea of “American exceptionalism” as much as they used to. That’s a positive development rather than a negative one.

Modern devices are more fragile, frustrating, and resource intensive than those of a decade ago.

More than any other language, English words are being adopted, and transformed, by other languages.

The first episode of “Seinfeld” aired 25 years ago yesterday.

A US-EU free trade zone is a no-brainer. But the devil is in the details.

Bill Gates is working to raise awareness of the world’s deadliest animal: the mosquito.

In previewing a story about an Arkansas town fighting to keep phone booths, The New York Times explains what those are.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the city of Slovyansk from pro-Russian separatists.

Americans disapprove of how the President is handling Iraq, but they don’t like what his critics are proposing either.