Outside the Beltway

The Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking to raise money for toll roads through a user tax on their best customers.

He may be running against Barack Obama, but Mitt Romney seems to mention Jimmy Carter a lot.

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

The arrival of Discovery in Washington D.C. has led to another lament about “national greatness.”

Do American courts throw people in jail for failing to pay their debts? No, they don’t.

The partisan crowds like President Obama’s populist rhetoric but it seems ill-suited for his re-election strategy.

Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) took to the floor yesterday to lambaste Grover Norquist and his influence over the GOP.

A majority of Americans want to ban smoking in public; a fifth want to ban it even in private.

Three years later, there are no signs that the real estate market is anywhere close to recovering.

Some people in the D.C. area are worried that the Federal spending gravy train may be coming to an end. They should be.

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

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

In my home state of Virginia, which has two Democratic Senators and went for Barack Obama in 2008, Republicans are poised to take four House districts held by Democrats in the last Congress.

A fatal car crash on a country road in Northern Virginia has become part of the national debate on over illegal immigration.

American businesses are sitting on a big pile of cash, and giving no indication that they have any intention of spending it any time soon.