Outside the Beltway

Pretending like the Bush administration never happened is a problem for the GOP.

January’s Jobs Report wasn’t much to write home about

Applications to America’s Law Schools are down, because the nature of the legal profession is changing.

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.

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

One major factor in the skyrocketing cost of a college education in America is a huge increase in overhead costs.

In Iowa, women can be fired for being too sexy.

The truth behind today’s unemployment numbers.

Congress is trying to re-write a law that the Supreme Court found unconstitutional in June. Have they succeeded?

Outgoing Senator Jim Webb is making another attempt at passing the Stolen Valor Act, deemed unconstitutional last year by the US Supreme Court.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

The Law School Bubble has imploded.

The death of Hostess Brands is a lesson in what is supposed to happen to failed companies in a free market.

A mostly positive, but mixed, jobs report drops five days before Election Day

Don’t blame the Defense Department for following a bad law.

While the conspiracy theory is nuts, there are legitimate reasons to be skeptical of some elements of September’s Jobs Report.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

September’s BLS Report will likely be significant but, behind the numbers, things don’t look all that great.

Ben Bernanke thinks doing more of the same is just what the economy needs.

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

The Obama campaign’s 4.5 new private sector jobs claim is true, but only if you forget the first year of the Obama Administration.

Economic growth is the key to fixing many of our problems. Unfortunately, we’re not likely to see the kind of growth we need any time soon.

The latest round of the Chick-fil-A controversy is perhaps the most absurd yet.

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

Romney’s new ad on a ruling issued by HHS on welfare-to-work requirements doesn’t pass the smell test.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

What if things don’t ever get better?

July’s Jobs Report was better than what we’ve seen the last few months, but it’s still not very good.

Andrew Hacker argues that, while quantitative skills are “critical for informed citizenship and personal finance,” making kids master algebra to graduate high school has disastrous consequences.

Sometimes, we just ought to accept the fact that people have disagreements when it comes to hot-button social issues.

An important ruling on the Obama Administration’s contraceptive coverage mandate from a Judge in Colorado.

What happened in 1970 to decouple wages and productivity?

In a stunning reversal of policy, DOD is allowing soldiers to march in a gay pride parade in uniform.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama traded barbs over the June jobs report, but neither one seems to have the answer to our problems.

The PPACA, the fight over it, and the Sibelius ruling all underscore this fact.

With four months to go until Election Day, the Obama Campaign was greeted with a very dismal jobs report this morning.

There are signs out there that people are becoming some what more optimistic about the outlook for the economy.

Chief Justice Roberts: “Although the breadth of Congress’s power to tax is greater than its power to regulate commerce, the taxing power does not give Congress the same degree of control over individual behavior.”

Does talent spawn growth? Or does growth attract talent?

The Oompa Loompah Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

New York’s Governor is proposing a change in the law that could spare thousands of people a year from an unnecessary trip through the legal system.

Another sign this morning that the economic has been slowing, and may be contracting.

A spate of bad economic news foretells a shift in the campaign for President.

There may be only one solution to saving the Euro.