Outside the Beltway

The Semper Venti Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

WaPo’s Emily Wax-Thibodeaux reports that, “At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert.”

The announcement of a potential merger between Burger King and Tim Horton’s has led to much moral preening from the usual suspects.

Our laws and social norms have not caught up to modern life.

Target is the latest business to ask customers to leave the guns at home when they go shopping.

Mike Bloomberg’s absurd soda ban is, thankfully, dead.

Hillary Clinton does not come across well when she tries to play the empathy card.

They really love their Starbucks at NBC–and not just on “Morning Joe.”

Many of America’s great writers were alcoholics.

The Nothing But Nyet Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The Economist reports that “The coffee insurgency” is winning.

The FDA is declaring war on trans fats. That’s a bad idea on many levels.

Under 21 in New York City? No more smokes for you!

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

Eleanor Clift reflects on her “final issue after 50 years at Newsweek.”

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The In Your Cups Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Another legal setback for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s crusade to regulate what New York City residents can eat and drink.

People who drink more coffee are less likely to kill themselves.

An overweight Republican from the northeast is thinking about running for president. No, not that one.

When Glen Coffee abruptly retired from a promising NFL career, most wondered what he was up to. Now we know.

Tax analyst Martin A. Sullivan finds that 1/3rd of “potentially political applications” approved by the IRS were from non-conservative groups.

Recent comments from an FDA official raise the prospect that the agency is considering minor’s access to caffeinated beverages.

Coffee makes you smarter, burns fat, and is good for your liver.

Government-mandated paid sick leave might improve both public health and the American economy.

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

So, apparently there’s a shortage of the goop that turns coffee into a $4 pumpkin-flavored milkshake. And grown ass men are upset about it.

The quadrennial political conventions have become, long, boring, tedious, and largely predetermined. It’s time to shake things up by making them a lot shorter.

An object lesson in bureaucracy and the reason why infrastructure projects aren’t as easy to complete as some think.