Outside the Beltway

Does talent spawn growth? Or does growth attract talent?

New York City’s Mayor wants to control the size of soft drinks.

The Wall Street Journal publishes a screed aimed at those about to graduate college.

What does it mean to have a limited government?

What are the limits on government power?

Janelle Nanos investigates her relationship with her iPhone.

Sometimes there was no sugar or Splenda for coffee. On chicken wing night, wings were rationed at six per person.

Bad Newt is back.

Heading into the last day of campaigning, the race in Iowa is too close to call.

The capacity of some people to look the other way in the face of evil is astounding.

A gay man claims Newt Gingrich told him to vote for Obama.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

Even those sympathetic to the causes are frustrated with the squalor and other negative externalities of the protests.

Does the state have the right to regulate how many people you invite to your home?

It turns out DOJ didn’t have $16 muffins after all–they were just charged $16 for each muffin.

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

Dirk Benedict, who played Lt. Starbuck in the classic Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff, who played Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in the modern Battlestar Galactica, in a Starbucks coffee shop.

The Telegraph’s chief political commentator sees moral decay at the top as well as the bottom.

Borders Books is closing, because the free market works.

Yet another study shows that people who drink diet soda actually gain weight. But it probably doesn’t matter, since that’s not why people drink them.

Mitt Romney told a group of unemployed Florida voters that he was unemployed, too! It’s being touted as a gaffe on Twitter but appears to be a joke.

Holland is going to make it harder for tourists to smoke marijuana.

Business Week has a fascinating profile of Dietrich Mateschitz, whom they dub “Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac.”

Drinking large amounts of coffee may ward off prostate cancer.

For the most part, April’s jobs report was good news.

A handful of young male bloggers have launched themselves to the head of the line, leapfrogging those who’ve spent years playing the game by the old rules.juice

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

Cap’n Crunch is going the way of Joe Camel.

We’ve been hearing about peak oil for years. But now some experts are warning of an even more serious crisis: Peak coffee.

I drink more coffee a month than the average person does a year. Indeed, I easily go through more than the 12 kilograms that represents the top end of the scale.

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.