Outside the Beltway

Apparently, our biggest problem in America is now the name of an NFL franchise.

The April Fools Bounce Back Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The former coach of an American team playing a foreign sport is upset that his foreign-born successor is using foreign-born Americans.

Ramesh Ponnuru considers “The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans.”

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

In a radio interview last week, Paul Ryan claimed to have run a sub-3 hour marathon. He did no such thing.

The Bikini Whacks Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

How dominant were America’s women in the London Olympics? They’d have come in fourth place in the medal count in the US sent separate men’s and women’s teams.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

Cover Girl model Marlen Esparza was the first American woman to win an Olympic boxing match.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

My latest for The Atlantic continues the debate over work-life balance spawned by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s cover story “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.”

The student-athlete fairytale is true. Except where you would reasonably expect it to be a lie.

An lesson from the United Kingdom in the importance of protecting freedom of speech.

The NYT has an interesting piece on the ongoing limted v. big governemnt debate.

New head-scratching revelations in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.

Not surprisingly, the Supercommittee is a Super Failure.

Chris Christie and Rahm Emanuel are being criticized for the brusque manner they handled questions about their children’s education.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

The Wall Street Journal is joining the modern era and dropping the practice of referring to people as “Mr.” and “Ms.” But only on the sports pages.

It’s been a decade since al Qaeda attacked the USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors. The perpetrators are still at large.

Under pressure from the Feds, the NCAA is cracking down on colleges who put women’s games ahead of men’s games, which some say relegates them to “warm-up act” status.

There is an al Qaeda link to yesterday’s terrorist attack in Uganda.

The federation governing international soccer joins a long list of international institutions — NATO, the G-8, the UN Security Council, and the EU come readily to mind — that need to be brought into the 21st century.

The Bad Robot Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.