Outside the Beltway

Gary Johnson is right to be upset that he’s been excluded from debates, but he shouldn’t get the government involved.

Questions have been raised about whether it is proper for Elena Kagan to hear the Affordable Care Act lawsuit.

New York Police dealt a major blow to Occupy Wall Street overnight.

The Supreme Court will decide on the Constitutionality of the President’s health care law by June 2012.

The Occupy movement is starting to face the reality that they really aren’t engaging in protected speech.

As if we needed another child rape scandal involving a famous institution of higher learning . . .

Details are still sketchy but two men are dead in separate shootings at Occupy Oakland (California) and Occupy Burlington (Vermont).

Penn State president Graham Spanier has been told to resign or be fired for his part in covering up a child rape scandal.

A DC area community parted ways with the company running its traffic cameras after repeated errors of absurd magnitude.

Penn State is cleaning house, including the legendary Joe Paterno.

A Federal Judge has blocked a new FDA rule that would have placed these labels on cigarette packaging.

Like some other Republicans, Rick Santorum has an odd view of the judiciary.

Perversely, highly qualified nominees for the courts are more likely to be rejected by Congress.

If true, Joe Paterno’s actions in response to charges of child abuse by a coach are indefensible.

If Occupy protestors getting hit by cars in two cities is the beginning of a trend, so is a second Iraq War veteran being seriously injured by police during the Occupy Oakland protestors.

So, Occupy protestors in yet another city thought it would be a good idea to get in front of a car.

Jerry Sandusky, the longtime defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team, is being charged with eight counts of child sex abuse.

The tents at Occupy Wall Street are increasingly housing the homeless.

When in trouble, sue the messenger.

A new patent granted to Apple raises once again the question of how far patent protections should extend.

Occupy Wall Street is not motivated by envy of the rich or even animus towards banks.

A case from the U.K. demonstrates why it’s a good thing to have a strong, written, Bill Of Rights.

A video from Occupy Dayton in which a protestor is shouting “F*ck the military, f*ck your flag, f*ck the police!” is going viral.

Many of the Republican candidates for President advocate ideas that would restrict the power of the Federal Judiciary.

In Louisiana, that cash in your pocket is now worthless if you want to buy used goods.

In Scotland, posting stupid things on Facebook is a “hate crime” punishable by serious jail time.

Legal guidelines for protestors.

The Supreme Court will have another interesting First Amendment case on its docket this Term.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

A plan to clean the park at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been postponed.

California’s Governor has vetoed a bill that would have reversed a very misguided decision by that state’s Supreme Court.

Elizabeth Warren has a deeply flawed view of our social contract.

You think you’ve got it bad at work? Meet Trudy Nycole Anderson.

A meme is emerging that the Occupy Wall Street protests are America’s version of the Arab Awakening. That meme must die.

Some 700 protesters were arrested yesterday afternoon after they shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for 2-1/2 hours, apparently mistaking it for Wall Street.

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

When the FBI essentially creates a terrorist in order to arrest him, have we really accomplished anything?