Outside the Beltway

This is looking less crazy, less sudden, and less an exercise in presidential whimsy than it seemed.

The Supreme Court will have another interesting First Amendment case on its docket this Term.

Why do pundits who are consistently wrong keep getting invited to be on television?

Herman Cain sings an ode to pizza to the tune of “Imagine.”

Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 double talk is starting to show

President Obama says he’ll fight for the 99 percent.

Breaking news: There’s a gay man in Hollywood.

Robert Downey, Jr. goes out on a limb for Mel Gibson, returning a favor.

Like his tax plan, Herman Cain’s immigration plan is not serious.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

Foie gras will soon be illegal in California, so some are indulging as much as possible now.

After years of fighting inflation, some are now urging the Fed to instead target GDP growth and jobs.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faces obstacles its Tea Party counterpart didn’t.

Byron York argues that the lesson of Rick Perry’s candidacy is “Think before you run.”

One thing is clear: anyone who tries to make cheap political hay over the LRA is a fool.

One of the less ballyhooed parts of ObamaCare has been tossed aside as too expensive before it even went into effect.

Some information on Joseph Kony and the LRA.

Obama is trying to get into Guinness under “US President with Most Simultaneous Wars”

A plan to clean the park at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been postponed.

Ronald Reagan’s chief economist has a radical plan for solving the housing crisis.

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

The Tea Party flame was lit by the battle over TARP, but they quickly forgot about those bailouts that supposedly upset them so much.

Rick Perry seems to be picking up where Sarah Palin left off.

Cain’s public lack of understanding about public policy goes beyond 9-9-9.

If Cain wins the nomination, he has provided a whopper of a campaign slogan for the opposition.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. believes the Congress is “in rebellion” and therefore President Obama should exercise extraordinary constititutional means” to implement a massive jobs plan.

Thinking about some of the claims of the 53%.

Rupert Murdoch’s publishing empire is being rocked by a second scandal, this one a scheme to inflate the circulation figures of the Wall Street Journal.