Outside the Beltway

One of the iconic speeches in American history is copyrighted.

There’s no such thing as “sex addiction.”

Would your cable bill be cheaper if you could just subscribe to the channels you wanted to watch?

Abu Sufyan al-Azdi, al Qaeda’s number two man in Yemen, is still dead. Or dead again. Or finally dead.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

While the military was ousting Egypt’s democratically elected president, the US Secretary of State was on his yacht.

A thirteen hour filibuster by Wendy Davis ran out the clock on a special session of the Texas legislature, apparently defeating an abortion bill that passed 19-10 after time expired.

The broadcast networks want to operate under the same FCC guidelines as the cable networks. And they should.

Revelations about the NSA’s data mining programs don’t seem to be having a significant impact on public opinion.

Allegations of wrongdoing and cover-up at Foggy Bottom.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

Jean Stapleton, an accomplished stage and screen actress who achieved entertainment immortality playing opposite Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith, has died at the age of 90:

Should bloggers be treated the same as “journalists” for the purpose of the protections granted by media shield laws?

Apparently, Benghazi has not faded (at least not for some).

The American people aren’t panicking.

A new poll shows that 62% of Americans oppose American military intervention in Syria’s civil war.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

There’s a lot we still don’t know about what happened in Boston, so maybe it’s time to stop speculating.

Tragedy in Boston.

A mix of media and abortion politics.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

Bonnie Franklin, star of “One Day At a Time,” has died from pancreatic cancer at 69.

“Who owns Sherlock Holmes?” The answer is . . . complicated.

A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.