Outside the Beltway

Rick Santorum is tired of “filth” atop Google searches for his name and wants the company to do something about it.

In a truly bizarre move, Netflix is spinning off the DVD-by-mail business that built them into an international brand and going stream-only. Those wishing to keep getting movies will have to sign on to something called Qwikster.

Republicans have a plan to wrest half of the Keystone State’s electors from Obama.

A Wisconsin DOT official sent out a memo telling DMV staffers not to volunteer the availability of free voter identification cards.

Raw Story tweeted “Republicans in Rep. Giffords’ district plan to raffle off the same type of gun Jared Loughner used. ” This links to their own story demonstrating that they’re doing no such thing.

Do the less attractive deserve legal protection? One University Of Texas Profess thinks so.

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

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

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

As of June 17, Sarah Palin is a registered US trademark, serial number 85-170,226.

Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?

One law school grad seems to think the solution to her employment problems is to sue her law school.

Suddenly, it seems like every website known to man is foisting videos that play the instant the page loads on their readers.

Demographic information about TV viewers is worthless to advertisers.

A Huffington Post contributor who had no expectation of being paid for his contributions is suing HuffPo for $105 million.

Bristol Palin was paid $262,500 by Candies Foundation as an anti-teen pregnancy spokesman. That’s 7 times what they spent on teen pregnancy prevention.

Xavier Alvarez lied about having been awarded the Medal Of Honor. Should that be a crime? The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals says no, and they’re right.

The antiwar movement has been strangely silent despite the fact that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t really changed that much since Barack Obama became President.

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

Christopher Lee abruptly resigned from Congress mere hours after news broke that he was advertising for sex on Craigslist. Apparently, he was looking for trannies.

President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of the Defense Of Marriage Act on appeal was a proper and appropriate exercise of his authority as President Of The United States.

A former Democratic state attorney general thinks Wisconsin’s Republican governor may have violated state ethics laws while on a prank phone call.

Four years after Barack Obama became a Presidential candidate, the birther myth not only persists, it seems to be becoming more prevalent. Why?

Michael Medved wishes that conservatives would stop implying that the President of the United States wants to destroy the United States.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 could be a Google killer. It could also kill the Web as we know it.

Sports Illustrated is trying to force subscribers to pay for a bundle of web and print services. Bad idea.

House Democrats are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any litigation regarding the Affordable Care Act. It’s a phony argument, but that’s because it has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with legal ethics.

AOL has bought the Huffington Post. But, really, it’s the other way around: HuffPo has taken over AOL.

A woman in California has filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s because she is apparently unable to resist her child’s incessant demands for a Happy Meal.

Several smart center-left commentators argue that President Obama is not triangulating. At least one argues there’s no such thing.

Despite recurring predictions that the Internet and mass communications would allow people to work from anywhere, talent continues to cluster in big cities.

The American copyright system is broken. Cory Doctorow offers some useful suggestions for fixing it.

While health experts warn Americans to cut the amount of fat in their diet, the Federal Government helps businesses like Domino’s and Taco Bell promote high-fat products to the public.

After three months, Rupert Murdoch’s strategy of walling off the Times websites isn’t looking so smart.

Ezra Klein argues that Sarah Palin’s Twitter account isn’t very popular. But that misses the point.