Outside the Beltway

The Ravens quarterback cashed in after winning the Super Bowl. Now it’s Maryland’s turn.

Much touted snowstorm set the DC area atwitter, only to fall short of expectations and yield derision.

About 8.1 percent of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer and nearly 600,000 have “megacommutes” of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles.

Separate, it turns out, is not equal.

Rahm Emanuel is reportedly considering a 2016 presidential run. It’s a thin report.

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

Did NBC’s David Gregory violate D.C. law on Sunday?

Possibly a big week for the Supreme Court.

Voters in four states endorsed marriage equality yesterday.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

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

Under the right circumstances, it would be possible to postpone a Presidential election.

Why do natural disasters cause the news media to act so stupidly?

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

Ten years ago starting today, John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo began a crime spree that kept the D.C. area on a knife’s edge for three long weeks.

Should people be able to vote six weeks before Election Day?

Today is the anniversary of a significant turning point in the Civil War.

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

Some unpleasant news for the Democrats in a new poll.

Will an MRI of your brain someday be able to tell if you’re lying? And, if it can, should it be admissible in Court?

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

There’s a wee bit more to the “Progressive defended my sister’s killer” story that went viral yesterday.

Matt Fisher’s post “My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court” is going viral.

An object lesson in bureaucracy and the reason why infrastructure projects aren’t as easy to complete as some think.

The Obama campaign is challenging an Ohio law that gives members of the military three extra days to vote. They have a very persuasive argument.

The US government has an odd and unproductive view on the concept of talks.

A new study suggests that taxing millionaires sends millionaires to somewhere that doesn’t tax millionaires.

Wouldn’t it be easier to bury the power lines instead of dealing with storm damage and week-long power outages seemingly every year?