Outside the Beltway

The nation’s newspaper of record is slashing its reporting team.

One in ten Army helicopter pilot is a woman, yet men account for 97% of injuries in helicopter accidents.

Three years after joining The New York Times, Nate Silver is jumping ship to Disney’s ESPN and ABC.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

From the Department of What The Hell Were They Thinking, I present Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh’s new ceremonial uniform:

Should the United States Navy name a ship after martyred gay activist Harvey Milk? This is not a rhetorical question.

What’s worse: Leon Panetta spending $860,000 in taxpayer money flying home? Or the GSA spending $823,000 on a conference?

Flashback: When David Petraeus was simply known as “Peaches” & was a member of the “French Club”

The “Obama Doctrine,” such as it is, seems to boil down to moral self-certainty combined with a glaring ignorance of reality. That’s a dangerous combination.

Americans get apoplectic at stories of police officers shooting people’s pets but seem unphased when they shoot innocent human beings.