Outside the Beltway

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

The Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the appeal of a far-reaching Commerce Clause case may indicate rough times ahead for challenges to ObamaCare

The political firestorm that has erupted in the wake of the shootings in Arizona is drifting, inevitably, into calls for more government control over the content of speech.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

We really need a better understanding of mental health disorders in this county, and events like those over the weekend underscore this fact.

Orly Taitz, Queen of the Birthers, loses in court (again).

Should we limit the number of rounds guns can hold in order to minimize shooting sprees?

The debate over heated political rhetoric has now led one Pennsylvania Congressman to suggest that some speech should be banned. This must stop now.

Thankfully, attacks on members of Congress are a rarity.

Graphic by Sarah Palin’s PAC had Gabriel Giffords’ district in the crosshairs

More breaking news on the shooting-in this case, about the shooter.

Note: while this post is brief, the news is of such significance that I felt it should be a headline story rather than relegated to a “quick pick”.

The Republicans are increasingly the party of white America. That’s short term good but long term bad for the GOP.

Anti-Immigrant groups are beginning their assault on the 14th Amendment, but don’t expect it to go anywhere.

In a new interview, Justice Antonin Scalia says that the 14th Amendment does not bar discrimination against women, whether it’s done by public or private entities. He couldn’t be more wrong.

John P. Wheeler III, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund during the Ronald Reagan era, has been murdered.

A Michigan man faces five years in prison for reading his wife’s email.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Despite federal laws banning even prison officials from bringing phones inside, tens of thousands of inmates have smartphones.

208 years ago today, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to The Danbury Baptist Association that has resonated through the years.

President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts are calling for bipartisanship in the New Year.

A somewhat surprising court decision from the European Union gives a glimpse of what the situation in the United States would be if Roe v. Wade were overturned.

Aaron Tobey stripped to his underdrawers in a Richmond, Virginia airport in support of the 4th Amendment.

Like it or not, the U.S. Constitution has always been a political document, evolving depending on the players on the stage.

The TSA’s crusade to fondle whomever they please continues.

A case in Montana brings to the forefront a power most prospective jurors aren’t aware they have.

With DADT Repeal now on its way to being fully implemented, the right is now claiming that it poses a threat to the religious liberties of military chaplains. As with their other arguments, this one is totally without merit.

So, Kodak is suing Shutterfly because it claims to have invented the idea of putting pictures on the Internet.

The Federal Communications Commission is using a statute from the 1930s to try to regulate the technology of the 21st Century. It’s a mistake.