Outside the Beltway

The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

And when did it know it?

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.

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

An increasing number of bright observers are questioning the notion that everyone needs to go to college.

It may be time to change rules keeping women out of combat roles. But “fairness” isn’t the right question.

The American military personnel system works against keeping the best and brightest officers in the service.

John P. Wheeler III, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund during the Ronald Reagan era, has been murdered.

The story about the private security guards who “arrested” a journalist at a Joe Miller campaign event just keeps getting stranger by the day.

Lisa Murkowski is the worst kind of sore loser candidate, willing to screw over her party’s voters and her own donors to keep her seat

Most of what passes for conventional wisdom about learning is wrong.

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.

If you think Jimmy Carter is the Worst Figure in American History, you really need to read more.

Recently Lt. Dan Choi chained himself to the White House fence to protest Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Yesterday, he found out that he’d been discharged from the Army because he’s gay.

Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.

Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

The odds that David Petraeus will be able to pull off a miracle in Afghanistan like he did in Iraq are very slim.

America may be the land of opportunity but it helps to have a head start in the rat race.