Outside the Beltway

The FARC now has an opening for supreme commander.

The Greek referendum could be a disaster for the global economy. And might be the right thing to do.

A case from the U.K. demonstrates why it’s a good thing to have a strong, written, Bill Of Rights.

The BBC is reporting that rebels claim to have captured the ousted leader of Libya.

In Scotland, posting stupid things on Facebook is a “hate crime” punishable by serious jail time.

Some information on Joseph Kony and the LRA.

The British government has worked out a deal to block pornographic websites unless households specifically request them.

Oz provides an excuse for some comparative politics.

Arthur C. Clarke predicts the future on a 1964 BBC Horizon program.

Some thoughts on the riots (especially some US partisan responses to it).

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

Reports of the death of the space program are greatly exaggerated.

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

I must confess to having only paid peripheral attention at first, but it is clear that there is a major story here that requires attention.

Institutions, or the lack thereof, matter.

The US Supreme Court declined to stay the execution of a child raping murderer over a technical violation of a treaty.