Outside the Beltway

The perfect storm of a bad economy and a new, massive, unpopular government entitlement program may be combing to cause serious damage to Democrats in November.

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has proclaimed, “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” Is he right?

FOX reports that the entire combat phase of the Iraq War will cost less than President Obama’s stimulus. That’s not a useful comparison.

Terrorism dry-run or just weirdly packaged items and a few coincidences?

Four news items and articles about China that have caught my eye.

An obscure U.N. human rights report has become the latest political outrage of the day in the battle over Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

More audio from Angle’s past interviews.

CNN’s Rick Sanchez has apologized after referring to Barack Obama as the “cotton-picking president of the United States,” which some have termed “racially tinged.”

The airline industry turned a record profit for the 2nd quarter. Don’t expect it to last.

Delaware’s September 14th Republican Senate Primary is shaping up to be the next battle between the Establishment GOP and the Tea Party movement.

Capitalizing on the buzz from his weekend rally, talk host Glenn Beck launched a new online magazine called The Blaze overnight.

The Your Pad Or Mine Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Republicans now have the largest lead in Gallup’s Generic Congressional Ballot poll that they’ve ever had.

Lisa Murkowski’s one chance at political survival if she loses the ongoing vote count in the Alaska GOP Senate Primary has gone out the window.

The Nevada Senate race is, in many ways, a three-way in which none of the above could be a spoiler for Angle.

Sarah Palin has done pretty well at helping Republicans win primaries this year, but her own political popularity isn’t any better than it was after she left office last year.

The floodwaters are starting to recede, although the disaster is far from over.

Time for the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

After several months of bad housing sales, politicians in Washington are starting to talk about bringing back one of the worst public policy programs of the last two years.

Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally raises, yet again, the tiresome fight over crowd estimates and their political significance.

For many reasons, the housing market is unlikely to fully recover for the foreseeable future.

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin held a rally on the National Mall, but at times it sounded more like an old-time religious revival than a modern political rally.

The Miller-Murkowski showdown is starting to get silly.

The controversial Muslim center near Ground Zero may get public financing.

A federal appeals court has ruled that there’s no link between autism and childhood vaccines.

A rule allowing only white students to run for class president at a Mississippi middle school has been quickly changed after the Internet brought attention to it.

The housing market that existed from the late 1990s until 2007/08 was an historical anomaly, and anyone expecting a return to those days is fooling themselves.

If Republicans regain control of Congress, you could be seeing a lot of scenes like this on your television for the next two years.

The New York Times realizes that most Republicans just don’t care that Ken Mehlman is gay. Surprise, neither do most Americans at this point.

Up in Alaska, Lisa Murkowski and Joe Miller remain deadlocked and waiting for a vote count that could take two weeks to complete. In the meantime, though, the Senator is already considering other options for getting on the November ballot.