Outside the Beltway

Congress is coming back to Washington and gas prices continue to rise. Expect a lot of demagoguery, but very little in the way of solutions.

Most good government jobs require a college degree–but they don’t care much whether it’s a real one.

A conspiracy theorist is never troubled by facts.

Mashup videos: Iron Maiden and The Monkees (“The Trooper Believer”) and Pink Floyd and Bee Gees (“Stayin’ Alive in the Wall”)

Three years later, there are no signs that the real estate market is anywhere close to recovering.

A comedian-turned-Senator makes some strong points about how America goes to war.

The birthers are dead (kinda), so long live the transcripters!

Britain’s Prince William marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, giving her a ring of Welsh gold.

The Garbonzo Warfare Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

You thought the birther insanity was over? Silly you.

Will days of strong economic growth ever return? And what happens if they don’t?

Another case of TSA groping has hit the media.

At least 128 are dead, with the toll expected to rise, in the flurry of tornadoes that hit Alabama yesterday.

Superman will renounce his American citizenship!

Time for the Thursday OTB Caption Contest^TM

Obama’s main politics are hardly as leftist as many make them out to be. Indeed, much of them could have fit well in the the GOP of 1990s and early 2000s.

An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.