Outside the Beltway

More on the strategery of civility.

While the violence is down in Iraq, it’s not gone.

Now that Republicans have the House, wouldn’t they be better off playing nice?

The first poll assessing the political impact of last week’s events is out, and it has good news for President Obama, and bad news for Sarah Palin.

The American media and Sarah Palin have developed an odd symbiotic relationship, and it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

The current approach of the GOP to health care is not dissimilar to its approach to fiscal policy: not a lot of substance.

A new book by President Reagan’s youngest son raises allegations that the former President was showing signs of Alzheimer’s Disease while still in office, and that’s led to a family feud between the two Reagan brothers.

The last thing that Haiti needed was for a former dictator to return, but that’s exactly what has happened.

Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech was, like a political stump speech, crafted and polished over months and years of delivery.

George Allen is running for his old Senate seat.

NYT public editor Arthur Brisbane explains how it came to pass that his paper reported as fact the erroneous news that Gabrielle Giffords had been killed.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

Both Bill Kristol and Brit Hume had interesting observations about Palin’s “blood libel” speech today on FNS.

A poll that came out late last week purports show that Palin’s speech helped her public image. However, if we look at the numbers, that claim is a weak one.

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

Yesterday, Eric Fuller, one of the victims of last week’s shooting in Tuscon, blamed Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Glenn Beck and Sharron Angle for the tragedy. Today he was arrested for making a death threat to a local Tea Party leader.

People find the most interesting ways to justify something that is obviously wrong.

Bipartisan seating at the State Of The Union is a pointless act of political theater. Then again, so is the State Of The Union Address itself.

The American public still has a totally unrealistic view of what it will take to get the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order.

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

It’s Lee-Jackson Day again in Virginia, and, once again, I find myself wondering why the South continues to honor a dishonorable legacy.