Outside the Beltway

Republicans don’t seem willing to let go of the Obamacare issue just yet. But, how long will that actually last?

Exit, Sandman

One of the iconic speeches in American history is copyrighted.

David Brooks warns that failing to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill “could be a tragedy for the country and political suicide for Republicans.”

The recording industry has sent its 25 millionth Google takedown notice, trying to kill links that sprung up because of earlier takedown notices.

A new Congressional Budget Office report finds real economic benefits from immigration reform.

A song written when Grover Cleveland was President is still protected by Copyright Law. That makes no sense at all.

A major change in policy by the Boy Scouts.

AP has won round 1 in a case against Meltwater that would severely limit the Fair Use concept in commercial cases.

The White House is backing an effort to overturn a bizarre ruled recently enacted by the Library of Congress

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

The sequestration cuts are fast approaching, and the political battle is continuing.

The American tax code contains perverse incentives and barriers to getting out of poverty.

Some surprisingly bad economic news

Our politicians have averted an artificial crisis of their own making. The next one’s in two months.

You can’t always get what you want.

Ronald Reagan won the tax fight. The debate now centers on whether to continue cutting taxes or slightly reverse the trend.

The nation’s capitol is closed in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. But the Supreme Court will be reporting for duty.

Mitt Romney is once again making completely false claims about the status of the United States Navy.

A lot more people than expected are likely to be hit by the ObamaCare individual mandate tax penalty than previously thought.

A Pirate Party leader has been policing illegal downloads of her copyrighted book.

Shepard Fairey, the artist who turned a generic AP photo of Barack Obama into an iconic painting, got a hefty punishment for lying to government investigators.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

Congress and the American people have a choice to make between two not very palatable options.

While Washington dithers, business owners are starting to worry.

Two liberal columnists say a recent Mitt Romney ad proves he’s out of touch—and implies that he’s running a racist stealth campaign.

The Bush tax cuts were much more progressive than you probably think.

Public interest groups want the Supreme Court to fix our stupid copyright laws.

If the GOP wins in November, there will be very few actual barriers in the way if they really want to repeal the PPACA.

Bill Clinton walks back his comments about extending the Bush Tax Cuts in the most unbelievable manner possible.

Recipe plagiarism and a bonus tale.

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.

The January jobs report was the best we’ve seen in more than three years.

Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for the Obama 2012 campaign.

The latest projections from Congressional Budget Office are sobering to say the least.

Employees of the US Federal Government earn substantially more in salary and benefits than their private sector comparables.

Tom Brokaw isn’t happy with Mitt Romney’s latest ad, which use of a 1997 NBC news report on Newt Gingrich’s ethics.