Outside the Beltway

Ann Althouse hits a blogging anniversary.

TNR makes the worst possible case for a proposition that’s almost certainly right.

Politics aside, the challenges to the PPACA’s birth control mandate raise important legal issues.

David Gregory committed a technical violation of DC’s gun law to make a point on a national news show. Conservative gun control opponents are angry.

Thinking can be an uncomfortable exercise.

One of these men is going to his party’s convention, the other is not. The reason why is rather obvious.

While Republicans talk about family values, Chuck Schumer is busy promoting them one staffer at a time.

Examining a history that might have been.

Should it be anyone’s business if you vote?

Speaking of trials in the court of public opinion……

Time to end a 41 year tradition?

Conservatives are rejecting Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek essay out of hand, but they ought to pay attention to what he’s saying.

This time, it was Newt Gingrich who walked away unscathed from a Republican Presidential debate.

Everyone has rights, even the person accused of the most vile of crimes.

Michelle needs to stop buying shoes–but Barack’s keeping his golf clubs.

The star of a controversial reality show about polygamy is suing to have Utah’s law that makes his living arrangement illegal struck down.

A few liberal law professors say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should resign now so President Obama can pick her successor.

The funny thing is that the quorum-busting in WI is more like a filibuster ought to be: a true delaying tactic that eventually has to give way to a democratic outcome.

It’s time to end the ability of public sector labor unions to hold taxpayers hostage.

A new study suggests college students aren’t learning the critical thinking skills they’re supposed to learn, but that isn’t necessary the fault of the university they’re attending.

The Presidency has lost the aura of mystique that used to surround it, and that’s a good thing.

Further thoughts on a rather radical proposed Amendment to the Constitution, prompted by a link from Instapundit.

Is the TSA groping passengers to force them into using intrusive scanners for which they’ve committed $173 million?

Arianna Huffington has become an online mogul by convincing big donors to pay her for content others generate for free. Did she steal the idea?

Is it odd that a political blogger dislikes actual political involvement ? No, not really.

The webmaster of a local Republican chapter linked a YouTube video that implies Democratic women are ugly.

Some number of people are staying married while living separate lives. This is, apparently, news.

JournoList’s archives have been making headlines at The Daily Caller, but there doesn’t seem to be any substance to the allegations of scandal.

Conservatives have long complained about liberal media bias. But conservative media seems to be much worse.

The results of a new poll may have President Obama worrying about 2012 already.

Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling and media mogul Conrad Black got new life today from the Supreme Court, who ruled the use of the “honest services” doctrine against them unconstitutionally vague.