Outside the Beltway

Has technology robbed us of more than it’s given in return?

Video calling is becoming widely available. Will it become as common as talking on the phone?

Sunday’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden was the latest example of how Twitter has become the go-to source for “Breaking News.”

Last night’s Presidential Debate in South Carolina was interesting, but, in the end, not very important.

A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.

A Pakistani man named Sohaib Athar unwittingly became part of history in the early hours of Sunday morning when he started telling twitter about some odd events in Abbotabad, Pakistan

Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

A major law firm has withdrawn from defending DOMA in Court, and a public controversy has erupted.

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.

Barack Obama dressed as a pirate

Sarah Palin was back speaking to a Tea Party crowd yesterday, but it just doesn’t seem like matters anymore.

Andrew Bacevich refers to Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power as “the Three Harpies.”

The Obama Administration is resisting efforts to expand Fourth Amendment protections to services like Gmail. That’s unfortunate.

Why in the hell are Federal taxpayers footing the bill for residential trash collection in DC?

Paul Ryan unveiled an ambitious plan to cut the deficit today. The question is whether it will be the beginning of a debate, or an opportunity for Democratic demagoguery

The story that GE paid zero taxes last year despite mega-billion dollar profits is completely untrue.

If we allow the possible reaction of the most dogmatic, evil people who might hear the message to govern our expression, we don’t have freedom at all.

GE made $14.2 billion in profits last year but paid zero corporate taxes to the United States Government. Legally.

Radley Balko and his blogs are moving to Huffington Post.

There are many opportunities to go to war. Here’s a guide for choosing between them.

If you believe Minnesota Vikings’ Running Back Adrian Peterson, the NFL is a modern-day plantation and he’s a slave.

Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.

Simplest possible NCAA Tournament bracket

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is the latest idiot celebrity to damage their career on Twitter.