Outside the Beltway

The repeal of DADT may open the doors for ROTC to return to many elite institutions, if cost doesn’t get in the way.

Do graduates of elite colleges earn more because of where they went to school? Or because of the traits that got them selected?

How would appointed Senators affect the partisan mix of the Senate?

While the University of Oregon’s athletic programs are flourishing in a seas of green, its academic programs are woefully underfunded.

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

Are the interests of a given state different than the interests of the people living in that state?

Roughly 150 years ago, the CSA was born. Is this something worthy of celebration?

The white, Southern Democrat is a dying breed.

Republicans are making some big promises to try to lure West Virginia Senator-elect Joe Manchin to cross the aisle.

As impressive as Republican gains in this week’s elections were at the national level, they were even more so in state legislative races. Which means Republicans are in position to consolidate and expand upon their recent gains.

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.

Democrats won the governorship, all 10 House seats, and all statewide races in Massachusetts.

In my former home state of Alabama, Republicans won every major contest, save the one House seat specifically drawn to ensure a Democratic victory.

There’s a trend toward using metrics to identify ways to stem the skyrocketing cost of higher education. The likeliest result is to devalue the “education” component.

Politico says 99 Democratic House seats are “in play.” They’re not. But dozens are.

Reason’s Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie have a pretty amusing rejoinder to the Obama administration’s attempts to smear the anonymous funding of television ads opposed to their agenda in a video titled “Who is Publius? or, Who’s Afraid of Anonymous Political Speech?”

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

Some Democratic candidates for Congress are working hard to distance themselves from Nancy Pelosi.

As widely rumored, Fredi Gonzalez has been hired to manage the Atlanta Braves, following the retirement of the beloved Bobby Cox.

New Jersey’s governor has killed a vital infrastructure project because of huge cost overruns. It’s penny wise and pound foolish.

Boston University and Northeastern have found that there is life after football. Shouldn’t most schools follow their lead?

One Republican analyst thinks that President Obama could learn a few leadership lessons from Vito and Michael Corleone. In order to do that, though, the President would need to stop acting like the weakest of the Corleone brothers.

Party labels are just names, as such all Republicans are Republicans in name only.

A rule allowing only white students to run for class president at a Mississippi middle school has been quickly changed after the Internet brought attention to it.

Despite raking in billions of dollars in television, ticket, and licensing revenues, all but 14 of the 106 schools in the NCAA’s top athletic division lost money in 2009. The median loss was over $10 million.

The Army and its officer corps are becoming increasingly Southern and rural. Is this a bad thing? If so, what can we do about it?

Should universities be able to force students to buy meal plans for the cafeteria? Alabama students are suing to end the practice.

That attitudes towards gay marriage varies by state won’t surprise you. The degree to which it does just might.

The first in a multi-part series on the Electoral College.

Is the left to blame for unpaved roads?

Not only is Hezbollah taking up with the cartels, they appear to have a massive new geography-bending technology. As such, we are all doomed.

One can be an elite and not be elitist and vice versa.

A lot of Americans don’t know that the US gained its independence from Great Britain. How can this be? Is it a liberal conspiracy?

The testiest exchange during today’s hearings in the Senate came when Jeff Sessions tried to confront Elena Kagan over military recruiting at Harvard Law School, and failed miserably.

Are the majority of illegal immigrants drug-runners? Arizona Governor Jan Brewer thinks so.

Should Obama waive restrictions on international shipping, as Bush did during Katrina? It’s more complicated than you may think.