Outside the Beltway

A European anti-Muslim blogger observes, ‘It is clear that Anders Behring Breivik is one of us.'”

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

The GOP contenders are starting the regular ritual of decided how to navigate our rather odd nomination process.

The Netherlands is considering a new animal cruelty law that would effectively ban kosher and halal slaughter practices.

President Obama has issued a Proclamation designating June 2011 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists, and to celebrate the great diversity of the American people.”

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

A major law firm has withdrawn from defending DOMA in Court, and a public controversy has erupted.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

It may be time to change rules keeping women out of combat roles. But “fairness” isn’t the right question.

The top ranks of the military are whiter and decidedly more male than the country as a whole. Should that change?

The new Chairman of the American Conservative Union seems to want to mend fences with social conservatives, even if that means throwing new friends under the bus.

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

Taking a dive into Mark Levin’s view of Federalism.

The Beast has released its The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, which I gather is supposed to be amusing rather than taken seriously.

As noted recently, whites are leaving the Democratic Party in droves. Some black Democrats think it’s time to take affirmative action.

Wayne State has canceled the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award, citing its namesake’s controversial remarks.

Despite recurring predictions that the Internet and mass communications would allow people to work from anywhere, talent continues to cluster in big cities.

The American copyright system is broken. Cory Doctorow offers some useful suggestions for fixing it.

215,000 people attended the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” compared to 87,000 for “Restoring Honor.” Even if you believe the numbers, they don’t tell us much.

President Obama is reportedly avoiding a visit to India’s Harmandir Sahib, or Golden Temple, for fear that he’ll be accused of being a Muslim.

Andrew Sullivan has been blogging for a decade now. He remains one of the few truly indispensable bloggers.

Comments sections on larger blogs seem inevitably to turn into cesspools. Is it worth trying to stop it happening?

The Army and its officer corps are becoming increasingly Southern and rural. Is this a bad thing? If so, what can we do about it?

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

If it was called the “Burlington Coat Factory community center” would anyone care about Cordoba House?

Can a public university expel a student for a religiously-motivated aversion to homosexuality?

Republicans are much closer to America’s political center than Democrats.

Jim Webb argues that we should stop measuring diversity by race alone.

Rural whites are outperformed by Jews and Asians and passed over by blacks and Hispanics in the name of “diversity” by elite universities.