Outside the Beltway

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

Protesters in the Chinese fishing village of Wukan are now in open revolt against the Chinese government. The government is laying siege to the town.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

More in common than they might think.

A new Gallup poll indicates that it is Big Government, not Big Business, that most concerns the American public.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

Barack Obama now looks to the Rough Rider himself for inspiration. Can’t he find it himself?

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

Current events have underscored who holds political power in Egypt in the post-Mubarak era.

The calendar favors waiting out the occupiers, not confronting them.

The protesters have returned to Tahrir Square, and so has the violence.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

The Associated Press is trying to fight Twitter rather than engage it.

Public opinion on the Occupy movement has turned increasingly sour.

For the time being, there will be no overnight camping at Zuccotti Park

New York Police dealt a major blow to Occupy Wall Street overnight.

The Occupy movement is starting to face the reality that they really aren’t engaging in protected speech.

Details are still sketchy but two men are dead in separate shootings at Occupy Oakland (California) and Occupy Burlington (Vermont).

Last night, most of the leading Republican candidates for President acted as if Europe was on another planet.

A new poll shows a plurality of people now have an unfavorable view of the Occupy movement.

The tents at Occupy Wall Street are increasingly housing the homeless.

Two Occupy Oakland protestors were hit by a Mercedes-Benz as they were blocking the street.

A righteous movement risks derailment by a handful of thugs and reprobates.

What do this people want? Can’t you read the signs?

As the season changes, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems destined to peter out.

Unnamed “sources” claim that ACORN is somehow behind Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots.

Occupy Wall Street is not motivated by envy of the rich or even animus towards banks.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor abruptly canceled a long-scheduled speech to the Wharton Business School after school officials changed the guest list.

Does “Occupy Wall Street” really represent the people they claim to be speaking for?

Legal guidelines for protestors.

Some on the right are giving Occupy Wall Street and The 99%’ers a second look.

The Examiner’s David Freddoso has a few words for the Occupy DC protesters: “Get off my lawn!”

President Obama says he’ll fight for the 99 percent.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

A plan to clean the park at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been postponed.

A change to the Bankruptcy Code could go a long way toward alleviating the burden of student loan debt that seems to be motivating some in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.

Even those sympathetic to the causes are frustrated with the squalor and other negative externalities of the protests.

Protestors have converged on DC, rallying against Afghanistan, Wall Street, and stuff.

The Occupy Wall Street protests look more like a temper tantrum than a substantive protest movement.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are, ironically, hurting small business owners and others in the 99 percent.

Judging them by their own manifesto, the Occupy Wall Street protesters are pretty silly people.

A meme is emerging that the Occupy Wall Street protests are America’s version of the Arab Awakening. That meme must die.

Some 700 protesters were arrested yesterday afternoon after they shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for 2-1/2 hours, apparently mistaking it for Wall Street.