Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases that implicates both the First Amendment and two Federal Laws.

The Supreme Court heard argument in a major campaign finance case yesterday.

One of the iconic speeches in American history is copyrighted.

An absolutely ridiculous criminal case out of West Virginia.

The AP has the Supreme Court banning demonstrations at the Supreme Court. The regulation in question doesn’t actually do that.

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

Dr. Keith Ablow lays out the case that President Obama is conducting psychological warfare on us.

Once again, national security wins and privacy loses.

Should bloggers be treated the same as “journalists” for the purpose of the protections granted by media shield laws?

The It’s good to be Putin Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A federal judge has ruled National Security Letters violate the First Amendment’s free speech guarantees.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether limits on contributions to political candidates is Constitutional.

The NRA’s response to the Sandy Hook shootings was bizarre to say the least.

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

Will your Yelp review land you in court?

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 Occupy Bunghazi Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Charlie Murphy, Eddie’s funny brother, has some interesting thoughts on racism and free speech in an interview with Esquire.

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.

Increasingly, the right of people to speak is being sacrificed in the name of “tolerance” and “security.”

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

Sacrificing our principles in the face of mob violence is never a good idea.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

Wherein I engage in a little intra-blog debate.

President Obama’s remarks before the United Nations were, at least in one particular part, disappointing.

The Obama Administration’s response to the protests in the Muslim world has been entirely wrongheaded.

Capitulating to a mob is never a good idea.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

One Professor suggests we sacrifice yet more of our freedom in the wake of the embassy protests in the Middle East.

The career of Larry Schwartz, who is the Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Cairo, is over.

My latest for The National Interest, “Freedom of Speech and Religion in Egypt and Libya,” has posted.

Mitt Romney’s initial response to the attacks in Egypt and Libya displayed a tendency to jump the gun rather than wait for the facts.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

Security at the Republican Convention in Tampa looks more like a war zone than a political convention in a democratic republic.

If you can name at least one of these people, you know more than two-thirds of your fellow citizens.

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.