Outside the Beltway

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

Ten years ago starting today, John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo began a crime spree that kept the D.C. area on a knife’s edge for three long weeks.

Secret surveillance of American citizens has dramatically increased under the Obama Administration.

Our War On Drugs is having a disastrous impact on our neighbors to the south, and they’re starting to notice.

Wherein I engage in a little intra-blog debate.

The Occupy movement began one year ago today. It’s no surprise that it ended up being a failure.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There’s little evidence it’s worked.

A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead.

The fact that yesterday’s shooting at the Empire State Building resulted in nine civilians being injured by police bullets raises several questions.

New York’s police commissioner admits that his officers recklessly wounded 9 innocent bystanders at the Empire State Building yesterday.

A corner has ruled the death of a handcuffed man in the back of a Jonesboro, AR police cruiser was a suicide. Needless to say, questions remain.

As far as the law is concerned, your social media accounts aren’t private at all.

It just seems like a man can’t live out his creed without some negroidal handling his groceries these days.

Another day, another mass shooting in America. Details are sketchy.

A very suspicious “suicide” in police custody.

The President’s former Budget Director joins the ranks of those calling for Postal privatization.

Because of a culture where being first is more important than being right, ABC News made a few mistakes in its Friday morning coverage of the Colorado shootings.

Once again, the usual suspects are exploiting tragedy for political purposes.

Terror erupted in a Colorado movie theater early this morning.

Nick Cohen dubs this year’s London Games the “Censorship Olympics.” Had he called them the “London Censorship Olympics,” the “2012 Censorship Olympics,” or titled the piece “Censorship Takes London Gold” he might have faced civil or criminal penalties.

The prosecutor in George Zimmernan’s case has made public “evidence” that will likely never be admitted at trial, but which could prejudice the case immensely.

The cover-up at Penn State was, if anything, worse than we thought,.

Joe Paterno’s legacy is likely to take a lasting and damaging hit when a report on Penn State’s handling of the Sandusky mess is released.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

The Supreme Court left the most important part of SB1070 intact, but it faces serious challenges in the future.

The US Supreme Court has upheld the most controversial provisions of Arizona’s immigration law.

President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay was impeached and removed from office this week.

The President seems to think the private sector is doing fine. He couldn’t possibly be more wrong.

Because, of course, the ends justify the means.

New York’s Governor is proposing a change in the law that could spare thousands of people a year from an unnecessary trip through the legal system.

Alan Dershowitz thinls the charges against George Zimmerman should be dropped. With due apologies to the good Professor, he’s wrong.

While the United States has some serious problems with policing, we’re not a police state.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.