Outside the Beltway

As Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast, most people are listening to orders to evacuate, but some people aren’t.

Once again, a natural disaster has caused a common economic fallacy re resurface.

Can someone who doesn’t look like a GQ model make it in politics anymore?

FEMA is about to run out of money, but don’t worry your Congressman is getting his vacation time in.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Repeating the “destruction creates wealth” fallacy every time there’s a natural disaster doesn’t make it any less of a fallacy.

The very question is rather dubious.

Now that the storm has passed, the media is being accused of over-hyping Hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Irene has been much, much less severe than heralded.

As Hurricane Irene makes its way up the East Coast, Ron Paul says disaster relief isn’t a job for the Federal Government.

With a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast, the House Majority Leader is engaged in an accounting exercise.

The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.