Outside the Beltway

As more details roll in on President Obama’s millionaire tax hike, it’s looking like it was drawn up by J. Wellington Wimpy: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.

Some perspective on “soaking the rich.”

We won’t solve our fiscal problems by soaking “the rich.”

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

President Obama is proposing a special tax rate for millionaires.

Where do we stand after 224 years?

Is there another explanation for Michele Bachmann’s decision to keep bringing Rick Perry’s HPV vaccine order up?

We’re getting close to the point where only two people on this stage will matter.

The economy continues to drag the President down.

Foolishly, the Palestinians are going forward with their effort to get Palestinian statehood recognized by the United Nations.

Public disapproval of Congress continues to fall.

Contrary to what Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman argue today, compassion does not require one to support government social welfare programs.

Ivar Giaever, the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, has resigned from the American Physical Society over its declaration that “global warming is occurring” and that “the evidence is incontrovertible.”

Far from being an existential crisis, the recent rise in public distrust in government is easily explained.

One provision of the President’s jobs bill would give an ill-advised right to the unemployed.

A book could be written on this subject, but let me suggest the following as a good place to start

James Carville has some advice for Barack Obama. It boils down to “be like Bill Clinton.”

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

More pay for play at the White House?

NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.

Of the institutions designed by the Framers, the electoral college is the one that deserves the least amount of defense if one’s defense is predicated on assumptions of the genius of said framers.

Last week’s opinions from the Fourth Circuit provide an avenue for the Supreme Court to avoid an early ruling on the individual mandate.

Why even have an electoral college?

Allocating Electoral Votes by Congressional District is an idea whose time has come.

Republicans have a plan to wrest half of the Keystone State’s electors from Obama.

The Obama campaign’s new “Attackwatch” site is the latest Outrage Of The Day

College towns and lily white enclaves top the list of best educated cities.

Despite previous denials, the White House did in fact intervene in the approval process for a loan to Solyndra.

The President’s jobs push isn’t doing much to help his job approval numbers so far.

A new poll shows that Americans are starting to look East.

Is there a trade-off in being polite?

Businessman Bob Turner (R) defeated state Assemblyman David Weprin (D) in the special election for the House seat held by former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (D). State Sen. Mark Amodei (R) beat state Treasurer Kate Marshall (D) in a special election for the House seat left open by Sen. Dean Heller (R), who was appointed to replace Sen. John Ensign (R).