Outside the Beltway

The Afghanistan War is officially eleven years old today.

Not exactly journalism.

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

A new book by one of the Navy SEALs involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden differs significantly from the official version put forward by the government.

Will an MRI of your brain someday be able to tell if you’re lying? And, if it can, should it be admissible in Court?

A corner has ruled the death of a handcuffed man in the back of a Jonesboro, AR police cruiser was a suicide. Needless to say, questions remain.

“Top Gun” director Tony Scott is dead, aged 68, after an apparent suicide.

A very suspicious “suicide” in police custody.

Doug Saunders makes the counterintuitive claim that things are better for Britons than ever.

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

Sage Stallone, who appeared with his father Sylevester is several films, has died aged 36 of an apparent prescription drug overdose.

Lies and misrepresentations in politics seem to be something the American people have come to, if not accept, at least expect.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

After a decade of war, suicides are surging among American troops.

A surprisingly short sentence in a case that caused a nationwide sensation.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

The consequences of ten years of war?

Well, maybe a tiny one.

A Federal Court rejects an effort to significantly expand the application of a law designed to target computer hacking.

The wonderfully wry British media strikes again with the BBC headline “Soviet ex-KGB chief Leonid Shebarshin ‘kills himself'”

Dharun Ravi was convicted of bias intimidation toward Tyler Clementi. It’s not at all clear that he should have been.

Rick Santorum has bigger General Election problems than Mitt Romney it seems.

The GOP has sold its soul.

Unlike TV, real life medical examiners take weeks, even months, to establish a cause of death.

A story from September 2010 reminds us that rushing to judgment is never a good idea.

Two prominent Florida Republicans are warning their party about losing the support of the nation’s fastest growing ethnic group.

Not surprisingly, it’s the end of Huntsmania

The Unsafe At Any Speed Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Once again, people are engaging in largely mindless speculation involving Hillary Clinton.

A new Iowa polls shows Rick Santorum gaining support. Or does it?

For years, analysts have worried that Iraq’s tenuous hold on stability would collapse upon the withdrawal of US forces. We’re now watching it happen.

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

GOP officials are reluctant to resurrect the personal attacks against the President used during the 2008 campaign.