Outside the Beltway

The House Republicans are functionally insane.

Three new polls provide a warning to both sides of the debt negotiations, but mostly to Republicans.

Senator Al Franken called Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery a liar in yesterday’s hearing on DOMA. Franken was the one being dishonest.

It won’t go anywhere this year, but after 15 years someone is finally trying to repeal a bad law.

Speculation about Michele Bachmann’s health continues.

One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole.

The Army is fielding tiny blast sensors to gauge the effects of explosions on individual soldiers.

Freshman GOP Representative Allen West is a loose cannon and unfit for office.

Once again, the primary scheduling race is getting ridiculous.

To save the world economy and themselves Germany and China must change course.

Is NATO prepared for what happens when they win?

What constitutes a true threat?

The Gang of Six is back together. And they have a plan.

Even if Casey Anthony had been convicted, there’s a good chance she would have won on appeal.

Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a man with shaving cream 2 hours into Parliamentary testimony.

One of the GOP’s staunchest media allies isn’t too impressed with their Balanced Budget Amendment.

We need to have a serious debate on taxes and spending. And it would be nice if the debate was honest.

A Presidential candidate’s medical condition is entirely relevant to their fitness for office.

A video of the New York Times website from September 2010 to July 2011.

Where is the line on using the White House to further the president’s re-election effort?

David Brooks is mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore.

A question about borrowing.

If you don’t eat your peas you’ll grow up to be a Congressman!

Moody’s is on the right track. The current debt ceiling law has done more harm than good.

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

I must confess to having only paid peripheral attention at first, but it is clear that there is a major story here that requires attention.