Outside the Beltway

One Virginia county wants to regulate how many people you can have in your home for a visit.

Perhaps the only good thing you can say about Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall is that, while he may be nuts, at least he’s consistently nuts.

Gizmodo’s Brian Barrett explains “Why the South Fell Apart in the Snow.”

The era of the electric car isn’t likely to arrive for a long time, if ever.

The Sunbelt continues to dominate.

The likelihood of any action on gun control in 2014 is extremely limited

The PPACA has had a rough 2013, and 2014 could be even worse.

The race for Virginia Governor turned out to be much closer than many predicted, but that should not be a surprise.

Some interesting polls out of Virginia today, but McAuliffe is still the clear leader in this race.

With debate season over, it’s looking less and less likely that Virginia Republicans will be able to hold back the Democrats on November 5th.

Absent an unlikely major change, it looks like the Democrats will win the Governor’s race in Virginia

The Virginia Governor’s race may be slipping too far for Republicans to pull off a victory.

The Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia wants a quick end to the Government Shutdown.

McAuliffe pulling away?

The race for Governor in Virginia is tightening, and Libertarian Party nominee Robert Sarvis is one of the reasons why.

Washington Post Magazine profiles a local woman with a horrible secret: her father designed and ran Auschwitz.

Potential trouble for Virginia’s Republican nominee for Governor.

The drip, drip, drip in Richmond is turning into a flood.

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

A major change in policy by the Boy Scouts.

The Virginia GOP’s nominee for Lt. Governor could pose a problem for the party.

The CIA will soon be storing our nation’s most sensitive information with a private company.

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

Virginia’s Governor’s race may be about to get very interesting.

There are very rational reasons behind the current gridlock on Capitol Hill.

The bizarre dynamics of Virginia politics.

Will your Yelp review land you in court?

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

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.

President Obama seems to have given away the store when it comes to the defense sequestration cuts.

All eyes on Northern Virginia.

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.

Virginia went Republican in every presidential contest from 1968 to 2004. It’s likely to vote for Barack Obama again five weeks from now.

Now that he is on the ballot for good, Republicans seem to be giving Todd Akin a second look. That seems unwise.

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

Three new state polls show that Mitt Romney’s path to victory continues to narrow.

As the final stretch of the campaign begins in earnest, Mitt Romney faces a very difficult task.

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.