Outside the Beltway

Wondering why CATO doesn’t rail against big business is like demanding to know why NARAL doesn’t spend more time advocating for the plight of stray cats or why PETA doesn’t seem to care about the homeless.

Much like Jon Stewart, the late-night comedian went out-of-character at the top of last night’s show to talk about the shootings in Arizona.

Yet more ridiculous political commentary arising out of the tragic shootings in Arizona.

The political firestorm that has erupted in the wake of the shootings in Arizona is drifting, inevitably, into calls for more government control over the content of speech.

Jared Loughner could have possibly been stopped, and treated, if someone had said something.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

Are we in the year twenty eleven or the year two thousand eleven.

The sitting RNC chairman is losing to a field of no-name candidates. Is he actually the favorite?

While our politics are seldom violent, our violence is often politicized.

Palin is missing an opportunity in the way she is dealing with the whole target graphic situation.

We really need a better understanding of mental health disorders in this county, and events like those over the weekend underscore this fact.

While I support a college playoff, there’s an argument to be made for the integrity of the regular season.

There’s a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn’t the one the media is talking about.

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

Orly Taitz, Queen of the Birthers, loses in court (again).

Should we limit the number of rounds guns can hold in order to minimize shooting sprees?

Over the past two days, Sarah Palin has become the center of the media firestorm over the tragic shootings in Arizona, she doesn’t belong there.

The debate over heated political rhetoric has now led one Pennsylvania Congressman to suggest that some speech should be banned. This must stop now.

Thankfully, attacks on members of Congress are a rarity.

The tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Arizona has started another debate about political rhetoric. It’s a stupid debate, and it’s utterly pointless.