Outside the Beltway

In the book he released last year , Rick Perry advocated far reaching changes to the Constitution.

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

British courts are handing out swift and harsh sentences for people involved in last week’s riots, including four-year prison sentences for two 20-somethings for Facebook postings in support of the mayhem.

Although he didn’t get the words quite right yesterday, Mitt Romney was exactly right about corporations.

The Eleventh Circuit has struck down the individual mandate as exceeding Congress’ enumerated powers under the Commerce Clause.

The Telegraph’s chief political commentator sees moral decay at the top as well as the bottom.

What’s a little thing like freedom of speech when there are shops being looted and burned?

Some thoughts on the riots (especially some US partisan responses to it).

The “super committee” created by the debt ceiling deal is already the subject of criticism, most of it unwarranted.

First it was same-sex marriage, now it’s a abortion. Rick Perry hasn’t met a Constitutional Amendment usurping state power he doesn’t like.

A somewhat surprising First Amendment decision arising out of the 2010 Elections.

Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling would involve abrogating an enormous amount of power to the Executive.

The Supreme Court is being asked to decided if Congress can overrule a foreign policy position the U.S. has held since 1948.

Does the 10th Amendment contain the answer to the same-sex marriage debate? Not really.

The House GOP’s proposed Balanced Budget Amendment contains the seeds of its own utter worthlessness.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

Does a family court have the authority to tell a parent to delete a blog critical of his ex-wife?

A new Tim Pawlenty television ad is raising copyright issues rather than, as intended, bringing back memories of the 80s.

A social conservative attempts to argue that same-sex marriage is a threat to liberty, and fails miserably.

What constitutes a true threat?

Even if Casey Anthony had been convicted, there’s a good chance she would have won on appeal.

Where is the line on using the White House to further the president’s re-election effort?

I must confess to having only paid peripheral attention at first, but it is clear that there is a major story here that requires attention.

A Federal Appeals Court says the full body image scanners showing up in airports are Constitutional.

Stephen Bainbridge has a new e-book out about a 25-year-old Delaware Supreme Court case.

A mistrial has been ruled in the Roger Clemens perjury trial and the judge may rule that a retrial would constitute double jeopardy.

Should the state be able to take your kid away if he gets too fat?

The star of a controversial reality show about polygamy is suing to have Utah’s law that makes his living arrangement illegal struck down.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

Philadelphia’s marijuana decriminalization program has saved the city over $2 million so far.

The White House has apparently rejected using a tortured interpretation of the 14th Amendment to deal with the debt ceiling debate.

The US Supreme Court declined to stay the execution of a child raping murderer over a technical violation of a treaty.

Usually, Defendants plead guilty for perfectly rational reasons.

The Casey Anthony trials lends evidence to support Jon Stewart’s basic hypothesis about the MSM.