Outside the Beltway

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

Closing down international air travel won’t stop Ebola from becoming a bigger public health threat.

For the first time, someone has been diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.

A heartwarming story. But why don’t minor league coaches have insurance?

Today’s sports media more closely resemble Court TV and TMZ than the SportsCenter of yore.

Good intentions, bad results.

Trying to make sense of a very complicated issue.

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

Fears about convention goers taking advantage of Colorado’s marijuana laws could harm Denver’s chances of getting the GOP Convention.

The NBA wants to get rid of Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, too.

I’m uneasy about a world in which a private conversation, illegally recorded, can be used in this fashion.

On screen body objectification is now equal opportunity.

What could possibly go wrong?

We should expect to pay more for the least undesirable seats.

JR is from Texas wants you to know that Texas is big. No, bigger than that.

Blaming Obama for the security bubble he travels in is, in the end, a pretty dumb argument.

After national attention, a North Carolina school has rescinded its ban on a 9-year-old boy’s wearing of a “girl’s” backpack.

If something is going to be done about an out of control National Security State, it’ll be because the American people demand it.

A brain dead woman in Texas is being kept alive while a fetus that is still not viable grows inside of her.

UPS and FedEx underestimated their capacity needs and failed to deliver packages in time for Christmas.

Wall Street Journal was looking hard for a story.

Once again, some groups in Texas are trying to block approval of a science textbook because it is too deferential to Evolution.

Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

With just over two weeks today, rumors are starting to float out that the efforts to fix the Federal Exchange website may not be done in time.

Amazon’s new deal with the USPS offers a way out of the agency’s problems if only Congress would give up its last bit of control.

Bum Phillips, former head coach of the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints, has died aged 90.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

The Emmys will honor Cory Monteith but not Jack Klugman or Larry Hagman. Where in that sentence you said “Who?” will tell us how old you are.

Texas has become the latest state to attempt to restrict abortion rights, and North Carolina isn’t far behind.

A Colorado 6-year-old with a penis has successfully sued for the right to use the girls’ restroom.

A George W. Bush renaissance? Not exactly.

Apparently, our biggest problem in America is now the name of an NFL franchise.

Long suffering fans of the Dallas Cowboys, including myself and Steven Taylor, have a love-hate relationship with owner-general manager Jerry Jones. cowb