Outside the Beltway

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

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

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.

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

Legal guidelines for protestors.

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.

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.

We may have entered a new and dangerous phase of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The execution of Troy Davis brings back to the forefront the reasons why the death penalty is inherently flawed.

In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will examine the question whether police can track people via GPS without first obtaining a warrant.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

The latest push for laws against bullying is another example of the Nanny State rum amok.

Prosecutors as asking a Judge to dismiss all charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, because that’s their only option.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

A Florida jury has found Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her daughter. The criminal justice system works.

Cory Maye has spent ten years on death row after a trial tainted by racism and corruption. In a few days, he will be free.

Further thoughts on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and our justice system.

The Supreme Court struck down a ban on the sale of violent video games to children, a victory for the First Amendment and parental authority.

Where’s the line when a public figure interacts with a teenage fan?

So, Anthony Weiner is a lying dick. Does it matter?

Desperate women are finding some horrific ways to terminate their pregnancies. Some are being arrested for it.

Former Serbian commander Ratko Mladic has been arrested for alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.

For as long as the notion of individual rights has existed, one of them has been the sanctity one’s home. As of Thursday, that’s no longer true in Indiana.

Another case of TSA groping has hit the media.

Singing the 1974 Carl Douglas classic “Kung Fu Fighting” can get you arrested in England.

Yes, please secure your home networks. But also: perhaps the police need to reevaluate their tactics.