Outside the Beltway

Mississippi voters easily defeated an amendment to the state constitution that declared life begins at conception.

So, Occupy protestors in yet another city thought it would be a good idea to get in front of a car.

Andy Rooney, best known to recent generations as the cranky old man at the end of “60 Minutes,” has died at 92.

Another potential problem for the Cain campaign.

The Feds fired Monster and now USAJobs is a disaster

In response to a poignant collection of tales of suffering from the worst economy in decades, some conservative activists have put up a juvenile collection of “suck it, losers” posts.

Pete Gent, the former Dallas Cowboy and Michigan State player best known as the author of “North Dallas Forty,” has died at 69 from pulmonary illness.

Is quoting President Obama without fixing his grammar “racist”? Some say it is.

He’s been out of office for more than two years, but George W. Bush is still being blamed for the state of the economy.

Is the NYPD becoming too much like the CIA?

We are being warned once again that the Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse. There really is only one solution.

A disastrous day for American troops in Afghanistan.

Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

Does the 10th Amendment contain the answer to the same-sex marriage debate? Not really.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

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

Leon Panetta has been brought in to oversee significant cuts to the U.S. Defense budget. Meanwhile, we’re in six wars.

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

President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of the 30,000 Surge troops.

Newt Gingrich’s entire senior presidential staff has resigned.

Both sides in the John Edwards case are heading into uncharted territory.

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

Jack Kevorkian, the man who’s illegal assisted suicide rampage earned him the nickname “Dr. Death,” has died.

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.