Outside the Beltway

As the counting of write-in ballots in Alaska continues to go in Lisa Murkowski’s favor, the Miller campaign is getting more desperate in its ballot challenges.

Joe Miller is suing to ensure that only write-in votes that correctly spell “Lisa Murkowski” count rather than allowing voting officials to guess at voter intent.

An incident at a school in England provides us with an object lesson in why the often derided concept of separation of church and state is an important part of protecting individual liberty.

Of the five countries that use the death penalty the most, only one is a democracy.

An imaginary letter from Mick Jagger to “the journalist Bill Wyman” in reference to Keith Richards’ new autobiography has been making the rounds. Oddly, everyone seems to think Jagger actually wrote the piece.

Three of the Justices who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in Iowa have been removed by the voters. That strikes me as the beginning of a dangerous trend.

In yet another move designed to take the fun out of being a kid, San Francisco has banned the Happy Meal.

We’re probably just one big scare away from mandatory full-body scans.

Too many copyright owners are stupidly invoking their rights to keep short clips off of YouTube and other services, losing potential customers in the process.

Neither Law Schools nor law students are admitting the fact that the legal market has changed significantly.

The Alaska Supreme Court has approved the state providing a list of certified write-in candidates to voters who ask for help.

The 9th Circuit has struck down an Arizona law requiring people to show proof of citizenship to vote. No, this doesn’t open the floodgates to illegal alien voting.

Thanks mostly to Virginia Thomas’s decision to place an early Saturday morning phone call to Anita Hill, a woman who had remained silent since 1986 appears in the press to claim she can corroborate the charges that Anita Hill made nineteen years ago.

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is once again the law of the land.

Andy Borowitz suggests “Three Things to Do When Clarence Thomas’s Wife Calls You.”

Nineteen years after they ended, the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings are back in the news thanks to a voicemail that Thomas’s wife left for Professor Hill.

Salon has video of the aftermath of the Hopfinger handcuffing. Plus: if we remove the partisan labels and just assess what happened, would we view this situation differently?

Don’t ask Senate candidate Joe Miller questions he doesn’t want to answer else his security team might cuff you.

Justice Alito said recently he won’t be attending the next State of the Union address. Sounds like a good idea to me.

A US soldier who captured a deadly 2009 rampage at Fort Hood with his cell phone camera testified Friday that he was ordered to erase the video by his commanders.

California voters are two weeks away from possibly legalizing marijuana, but the Federal Government doesn’t care.

A Federal Judge in Florida has handed a significant, albeit procedural, victory to the opponents of ObamaCare.

Citizens United really wasn’t that big a deal.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

The IRS wants to license tax preparers but exempt lawyers and CPAs from the requirement.

A federal judge has ruled that ObamaCare’s individual mandate is Constitutional and thus brings to fruition the inevitable, ridiculous result of Wickard v. Filburn.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars has endorsed Ron Klein, who never served a day in uniform, over retired LTC Allen West, a decorated veteran of several foreign wars. Is this an outrage?

The new health care law’s individual mandate has survived it’s first legal challenge, and that’s not really a surprise.

The Supreme Court yesterday heard oral argument in a case where being on the right side means supporting some vile people, but that’s what the First Amendment is all about.

Our 24/7 media culture has created a climate where persons accused of sensational crimes are presumed guilty.

The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

While Congress continues to refused to act, another Federal Judge has struck a blow against the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

Why do innocent people confess to crimes they didn’t commit, and what should we do about it ?

In comments this morning, Justice Stephen Breyer seemed to suggest that Koran burning might not necessarily be Constitutionally protected.

Both Congress and the Obama Administration have stepped up enforcement of immigration laws–at immense cost to both the budget and the courts.

Elena Kagan has announced that she will not participated in the consideration of more than half the cases currently scheduled to be hear by the Supreme Court when it’s new term begins in October.

A federal court has found that don’t ask, don’t tell violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

An academic study reveals that police officers with college education are less violent than their peers. But the real story is how violent cops are, period.

Currently roughly 1 in 8 federal judgeships remain vacant.

Did you know that more Christians than Muslims were victims of hate crimes in America? Did you also know that there are a lot more Christians? Oh. Never mind, then.