Outside the Beltway

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who will enter the Presidential race tomorrow, says he wouldn’t have tried to have Osama bin Laden killed.

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

One U.S. Senator wants to bring elements of the TSA’s security theater to America’s rail system.

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

I don’t feel the jubilation that came with Saddam Hussein’s capture in December 2003. Sadly, I know better this time.

Prejudice and negative attitudes towards obese individuals is becoming a global norm, not just an American phenomenon.

Palin thinks Israel apologizes too much and it would seem that some find this to be a profound statement.

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

Establishing a no-fly zone isn’t likely to be enough to remove the current Libyan regime from power.

Iran doesn’t like the logo for the London Olympics and is threatening to boycott if it isn’t changed.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

The continuing chaos in Libya could have a serious impact on the U.S. economy, especially if it spreads to other oil producing nations.

Knowing his downfall was imminent, the former Egyptian dictator moved vast wealth out of rich of Western governments.

A new Wikileaks revelation indicates that the U.S. may have paid a heavy price to get a deal on New START.

Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Andy McNab writes books for people who like video games.

Washington D.C.’s 34 year-old Metro system is about to become the latest stage for Security Theater.

Americans who think our politics couldn’t get more polarized need only look across the Pond, where our European cousins have been routinely dealing with rioting in the streets over measures to rein in unsustainable social programs.

Some DC based hipsters want to know why America doesn’t have good pubs like in London. It turns out, they’re everywhere.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Tuesday in London on a Swedish warrant.

Mike Bloomberg says we’re electing people to Congress who “can’t read” and “don’t have passports.”

The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?

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

Tensions are on the rise again on the Korean Peninsula after North Korea shelled a South Korean island.

Are the American people finally waking up to the absurdity of TSA security theater? One can only hope they are.

Is the current media environment a problem for proper political discourse?

After three months, Rupert Murdoch’s strategy of walling off the Times websites isn’t looking so smart.

Karl Rove unloaded what may be the beginning of the GOP Establishment’s effort to cut a Palin Presidential bid off at the knees.

If you’re like me, you think of William Shakespeare’s plays as being rendered in an archaic but decidedly upper crust British English. It turns out that this is an artifact of modern theater.

Western athletes who’ve complained about the conditions at the Commonwealth Games are coming in for a firestorm of criticism.

Epic flooding in Pakistan is a humanitarian crisis which dwarfs the combined devastation of the 2004 Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Why aren’t we paying attention?