Outside the Beltway

Freedom of speech means freedom for all speech, even when it is racially offensive.

James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

President Obama is rewarding unqualified hacks who raised huge sums for his campaign with ambassadorships.

A bizarre hit piece in National Journal gives the false impression that our military leaders are considering removing the president.

Charlie Murphy, Eddie’s funny brother, has some interesting thoughts on racism and free speech in an interview with Esquire.

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game (more or less, anyway).

Many on the right are heavily invested in the argument that current polling is intentionally biased against Mitt Romney. Their argument is not very plausible.

Capitulating to a mob is never a good idea.

Restaurant chain Chick-fil-A is facing criticism after its President’s comments on same-sex marriage.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

Vehement disagreement with the policy views of a country and prejudice based on immutable traits are not the same.

Surprising no one, President Obama’s release of his long-form birth certificate has satisfied none of the Birthers.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology.

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

The battle between social and fiscal conservatives continues, with the SoCons now saying that criticism of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint is now considered evidence of ideological impurity.

Apparently Juan Williams is really, really, really important.

NPR has fired Juan Williams over controversial comments about Muslims.

Civilian control of the military means, oddly, that civilians control the military. And it means precisely that the military does not get to decide which civilians run the country.

Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.

President Obama’s decision to speak out on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” has turned what was a hot-button cable news item into a political issue that even his fellow Democrats don’t want to deal with.

Once again, the Supreme Court affirmed today that there is no Constitutional right to receive public funds.

Ron Paul’s newsletters are proof either that he’s a racist or a fraud.