Outside the Beltway

The CBO sees a clear threat of a fiscal crisis during the next two decades unless we’re saved by magic ponies.

Sarah Palin had a very good track record in her primary season endorsements, but it’s not at all clear that she will have much of an impact on the 2010 General Election.

Warren to appears set to oversee the establishment of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

At least one Christine O’Donnell supporter thinks that Republicans who aren’t jumping on are bandwagon are doing so because of her gender.

DC schools superintendent Michelle Rhee has radically transformed the system for the better. Naturally, the teachers unions want her gone.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine thinks all his party’s problems will be solved with this new web site. Yea, that’s the problem you guys have this year, bad web design.

Let’s go to the numbers in Delaware.

Is it odd that a political blogger dislikes actual political involvement ? No, not really.

Christine O’Donnell is buying ads on posts arguing that the party screwed itself by voting for her in yesterday’s Republican primary.

Last night’s celebration in Wilmington is sure to be tempered just a bit by news that Christine O’Donnell is sixteen points behind her Democratic opponent.

U.S. forces are still engaged in full-scale counterrrorism operations in Iraq. In what sense are “combat operations” over?

The Navy has fired fourteen skippers this year. Eleven of those were for personal misconduct.

Now we get to see how the Tea Party effects the GOP ove the medium to long term.

For the first time ever, white students do not make up a majority among freshmen at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Delaware GOP now has, according to Nate Silver, a 17% chance of winning the Senate seat.

Why do innocent people confess to crimes they didn’t commit, and what should we do about it ?

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels appears to be quietly putting together the beginnings of a campaign for President of the United States. Don’t count him out by any means.

In comments this morning, Justice Stephen Breyer seemed to suggest that Koran burning might not necessarily be Constitutionally protected.

Both Congress and the Obama Administration have stepped up enforcement of immigration laws–at immense cost to both the budget and the courts.

White America is within thinkable distance of a moment when it will no longer be the majority.

Affluent whites are astounded that Adrian Fenty appears about to lose his bid for re-election as DC’s mayor. But the majority black population is less than thrilled with his tenure.

Is President Obama poised to make a recess appointment for Elizabth Warren?

While Republicans will likely take over some key governorships and state legislature after November’s midterms, America’s changing demographics will limit their ability to gerrymander safe districts.

Regular readers know that I’ve long thought we’ve achieved all we’re going to in Afghanistan. But that doesn’t mean that our presence is therefore motivated by secret motives.