Outside the Beltway

Last night’s Republican debate is likely to raise more questions about Rick Perry in the minds of voters.

Rick Santorum is tired of “filth” atop Google searches for his name and wants the company to do something about it.

In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will examine the question whether police can track people via GPS without first obtaining a warrant.

George Lucas is once again “enhancing” his epic films for the upcoming Blu-Ray release.

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.

Her appeal is not her ideas, policies, or achievements but her personality and appeal to the red meat base.

Either a bunch of bloggers or one of the world’s smartest economists doesn’t understand economics.

When one adopts a one-word pseudo-elfin name, one might expect a spot of trouble

Senator Al Franken called Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery a liar in yesterday’s hearing on DOMA. Franken was the one being dishonest.

Even if Casey Anthony had been convicted, there’s a good chance she would have won on appeal.

A space shuttle lifted off for the last time on Friday, and some people seem to think its the beginning of the end of America.

Microsoft is making millions from Android phones, despite having nothing to do with designing, marketing, manufacturing, or distributing them.

A retiree with some rather strange views hosted a Tim Pawlenty event.

Michele Bachmann is not Sarah Palin.

A new study shows that college students who take late classes drink more alcohol.

Pawlenty proposes the “Google test.”

If there’s anything all sides should be able to agree on after several days of back-and-forth is that most of us didn’t really know the story.

Do Republicans like Herman Cain because he’s black?

Has technology robbed us of more than it’s given in return?

A Texas high school student who was kicked off her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to cheer for her rapist had her lawsuit dismissed as frivolous and was ordered to pay $45,000 in legal fees.

Local newspapers in Belgium inexplicably don’t want to be linked by Google and are using copyright law rather than a robots.txt file to enforce their wishes.

Apple isn’t the only company collecting data off their smartphones.

Andrew Bacevich refers to Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power as “the Three Harpies.”

Agency heads are pleading President Obama’s case in advance of a shutdown.

Video entertainment is moving in two seemingly opposite directions simultaneously.

Philip Greenspun wonders, “How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?”

Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.

While complaints that there’s too much information for intellectuals to sort through, much less read, are constant, they’re not new. Harvard historian Ann Blair argues in her new book Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age that this stress goes back at least to Seneca’s time.

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

Archaeologists may have found the lost city of Atlantis. And, no, not the one in the Bahamas.

Facebook limits accounts to those who say that they are at least 13 years old. Shockingly, some kids lie to get on the popular social network.

Google erects some much-needed defenses in the optimization arms race.

Did a unit in Afghanistan engage in an IO operation against U. S. senators?

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did not campaign on the union-busting package he’s proposing now.

Should employers be allowed to ask for your Facebook login as a condition of employment?