Outside the Beltway

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

Danger Room’s Spencer Ackerman reports on an alleged secret CIA interrogation facility somewhere in the former Soviet Union.

A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court struck down a ban on the sale of violent video games to children, a victory for the First Amendment and parental authority.

If someone had given me ten guesses as to the biggest electricity hog in my house, I’d have never guessed it: The set-top box that houses my DirecTV signal and DVR.

On paper, Jon Huntsman looks like a great General Election candidate. The problem is it seems impossible for him to win the GOP nomination.

How many Texas politicians does it take to screw in a non-communist light bulb?

CA’s budget battles continue.

The race for the GOP nomination is taking shape.

A very provocative decision on same-sex marriage from an unlikely source.

Never popular with his colleagues, Anthony Weiner may now be the least liked Member.

Austan Goolsbee is resigning as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to return to the University of Chicago.

One law school grad seems to think the solution to her employment problems is to sue her law school.

The Nuthin’ Yahoo Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A bizarre legal case from Italy.

Prisons can be so overcrowded as to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

Canada is much friendlier than the United States with regard to immigration.

We’ve reached a turning point in the debate over same-sex marriage.

A loud woman who was yapping loudly for hours on an AmTrak quiet car has been arrested after getting belligerent.

With a Federal ban on sales of incandescent light bulbs fast approaching, manufacturers are still scrambling to invent suitable substitutes.

Romney wants to make a federalism based argument for why his MA health care bill is good, while the PPACA is tyrannical. However, just saying that is not an argument.

Can one effectively run for the presidency if one’s spouse doesn’t want to be in the spotlight?

Local newspapers in Belgium inexplicably don’t want to be linked by Google and are using copyright law rather than a robots.txt file to enforce their wishes.

Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.

With all the birther talk these days, it’s probably time to question whether we even need the “natural born citizen” rule anymore.

The GOP seems to be telling President Obama that revenue increases are off the table. That’s a huge mistake.

France’s top court refused to allow French citizenship for 10-year-old twin girls born to a surrogate mother in the United States.

The war on childhood fun reaches the East Coast.