Outside the Beltway

The White House is still smarting over the fact that they got burned by John Boehner, again.

Tim Cook is succeeding Steve Jobs as head of the world’s biggest technology company. Does it matter that he’s gay?

Before achieving astounding success, Steve Jobs had to experience disappointment and failure.

Rick Perry will need to get past Michele Bachmann before he takes on Mitt Romney. But, really, how hard could it be?

The IBM PC was introduced 30 years ago. Has its time passed?

The second round of the rolling Wisconsin recall elections was held yesterday. The Republicans are still in charge.

Vice President Biden has called Congressional Republicans and their Tea Party backers “terrorists.”

I no longer have any confidence that our leaders will act responsibly before the August 2nd debt ceiling deadline.

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

Business Week has a fascinating profile of Dietrich Mateschitz, whom they dub “Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac.”

Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg is catching some flak for complaining that he’s “struggling like everyone else” despite a net worth in the millions.

Apple isn’t the only company collecting data off their smartphones.

Why, yes, my iPhone has indeed been tracking me since last summer.

Another celebrity trial shines a light on our bizarre justice system.

A 15-month-old was accidentally served a mixed drink instead of apple juice.

The war on childhood fun reaches the East Coast.

Mike Huckabee apologized for saying Barack Obama grew up in Kenya, explaining only that he meant that the president isn’t a Real American.

My official statement. Please refer to this the next time somebody says something stupid.

The next-generation iPhone 5 is rumored to have a 4 inch screen and even a slide-out keypad.

They’re from the government, and they’re here to take that tasty snack out of your hands.

It seems to me that inactivity can have just as profound affects as activity and likewise that it is rather difficult to argue that health care isn’t part of interstate commerce.

What happened to the 15 million jobs that were supposed to be created in the past 10 years but weren’t?

So, Kodak is suing Shutterfly because it claims to have invented the idea of putting pictures on the Internet.

Did you know that the iPhone is made in China for a mere $6.50? It’s false but true!

The Atlantic’s Dave Thier laments that, “The Beatles on iTunes Means Your Kids May Never Hear ‘Her Majesty’

Republicans either lost or barely won a whole lot of races because their vote was split with minor party candidates.

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

The next generation of the Windows operating system is about two years away. Does anyone care?

New multifunction credit cards will soon change the way Americans handle simple transactions.