Outside the Beltway

Now that America’s political leadership have probably averted a self-inflicted global economic calamity, it’s time to assess the winners and losers.

We have a deal in Washington. Now, the leadership just has to make sure it can pass Congress.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

President Obama wants a million hybrid cars on the road by 2015. That’s easier said than done.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants a full debate on the PATRIOT Act. What’s Congress so afraid of?

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

One of the Tea Party movement’s favorite Senators used the dreaded c-word.

Natural disasters in Japan have lessened the supply of pigments necessary to make black paint.

Automated programs are getting very good at poker and are winning large sums on online gambling sites.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

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.

The debate over Senator Rand Paul’s proposed $500 billion spending cut plan has focused almost exclusively on one issue, and one nation.

Arizona looks to be the latest state to try to revive the discredited doctrine of nullification.

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 in Idaho are talking about resurrecting the foolish and discredited idea of nullification as a weapon in the fight against ObamaCare.

The Federal Communications Commission is using a statute from the 1930s to try to regulate the technology of the 21st Century. It’s a mistake.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

The incoming House Republicans aren’t making a good first impression.

Inspired by the reaction to the Julian Assange case, a feminist writer proposes dangerous changes to American rape laws.

Within the first few months of 2011, Congress will be required to take another unpalatable vote to raise the debt ceiling. Already, some incoming Republicans are talking about waging an effort to block the vote. That would be politically, and financially, stupid.

The battle between social and fiscal conservatives continues, with the SoCons now saying that criticism of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint is now considered evidence of ideological impurity.

Some Republican Senators-elect are imploring Harry Reid not to consider any treaties during the lame duck session.

Rand Paul is taking some heat for remarks that may or may not indicate that he’s backtracking on his previous vow not to seek earmark spending for Kentucky. Yes folks, the phony war on earmarks is back.

Politico runs this morning with the shocking revelation that Keith Olbermann is a Democrat.