Outside the Beltway

Questions have been raised about whether it is proper for Elena Kagan to hear the Affordable Care Act lawsuit.

Polls are starting to show signs that the sexual harassment allegations are starting to hurt Herman Cain.

Rupert Murdoch’s publishing empire is being rocked by a second scandal, this one a scheme to inflate the circulation figures of the Wall Street Journal.

A major backer of Republican and Libertarian causes is under fire.

More pay for play at the White House?

Excluding all moral concepts and language from my thinking, feeling and actions has proved so workable and attractive, I am convinced that anyone who gives it a fair shot would likely find it to his liking.

Rick Perry’s vision of capitalism doesn’t exactly comply with what Adam Smith had in mind.

Rick Perry may be much less than meets the eye.

The Air Force has suspended a course that teaches nuclear officers that Christian ethics permit them to do their job.

Where is the line on using the White House to further the president’s re-election effort?

Will Joe Biden be on the podium with Barack Obama at the 2012 Democratic convention, or will there be a new running mate?

Is it worse for a child to see pornography or graphic violence?

For the second time in two weeks, copyright lawsuit mill Righthaven has suffered a loss in Federal Court.

A quick glance provides some insights into Palin’s thought processes and leadership style.

After a week of denial, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner admitted today that he had engaged in online relationships with several women.

The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

Why did then-Governor Mike Huckabee’s office destroy all its office hard drives shortly before leaving office?

Glenn Beck’s own website discovers some interesting, and ethically disturbing, editing in the latest round of video’s from “ACORN Pimp”James O’Keefe.

While there are doubtless flaws with the journalistic values and culture of the New Media, we too often contrast today with a Golden Age of Media that never existed.

A former Democratic state attorney general thinks Wisconsin’s Republican governor may have violated state ethics laws while on a prank phone call.

A county in the far southwest corner of Virginia is the latest battle ground in the ongoing battle over the separation of church and state.

House Democrats are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any litigation regarding the Affordable Care Act. It’s a phony argument, but that’s because it has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with legal ethics.

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

Republicans are renaming three House committees, including bring back Ethics and taking out Labor.

Has WikiLeaks changed journalism forever?

Are American diplomats lying to reporters because they figure our citizens can’t handle the truth?

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

Tom DeLay is a sleazebag and has been found guilty by an Austin jury for skirting the law. But it may in fact be a miscarriage of justice despite the victim being as unsympathetic as it gets.

Less than expulsion, but more than a slap on the wrist. The House Ethics Committee recommends that New York Congressman be censured for cheating on his taxes and breaking the rules of Congress.