Outside the Beltway

A dubious distinction.

For veterans who get in trouble with the law, *when* they commit a crime can have profound implications on their future. Does this make sense?

The Supreme Court may have just given a boost to those who want to subject online sales to the same sales taxes as in-person sales.

Another conflict between the Obama Administration and a news media that is frustrated about the extent they are being controlled by being refused access.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

A second Federal Court of Appeals in a week in two weeks has ruled the PPACA’s birth control mandate is unconstitutional.

A 500 pound French man was denied a return flight by British Airways.

Daylight Savings Time ends early on Sunday. Perhaps it should never return.

The diary entries of a dying Ulysses S. Grant shed some interesting insights into a different time.

As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.

Hillary Clinton is getting offers from universities to add her name and presence.

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

Alex Rodriguez and 12 other Major League Baseball players were suspended today for PED use. Rodriguez is the only one vowing to fight the suspension.

A business move that signals the continuing death of the newspaper industry.

President Obama is doing precisely what Senator Obama warned us about.

Gay bars around the world are banning Russian vodka to protest the lack of gay rights in that country.

ABC News selectively edited their interview with Juror B29 to give a false impression of what she said.

What can an incident at an elite New York party ten years ago tell us about race in America?

In a move that was perhaps inevitable, the City of Detroit has filed for Bankruptcy Court protection.

There are many fallacies contained within the GOP’s insistence that immigration reform must begin and end with “border security.”

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

The owners of the Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks took out a full page ad in today’s Boston Globe thanking their opponents and their home city for a classy and well-fought Finals

The Supreme Court’s handling of standing in the two same-sex marriage cases likely seems contradictory to many outside observers.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

The Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal of a case in which Indiana’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood had been blocked by a Federal Court.

Republicans should reject the calls to call for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the unfolding scandals in Washington.

President Obama delivered another powerful speech on race.

The Swing And A Miss Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Justice Ginsburg made some interesting comments about Roe v. Wade recently. Could they be a signal about where the Court is headed on gay marriage?

The reality of gun violence in the United States is far different from the story the media is telling us.

The April Jobs Report was good, but not exactly anything to write home about.

The rich are getting richer and more politically powerful.