Outside the Beltway

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

The Supreme Court will decide on the Constitutionality of the President’s health care law by June 2012.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

President Obama ended the tradition of native costumes for the APEC Summit.

From across the pond, an observation that the way we pick Presidents isn’t really that bad after all.

Last night, Herman Cain established that he simply isn’t prepared to be Commander in Chief.

The Occupy movement is starting to face the reality that they really aren’t engaging in protected speech.

The venerable conservative columnist once endorsed Romney as a “good option for the Right” but now calls him “the pretzel candidate”

As if we needed another child rape scandal involving a famous institution of higher learning . . .

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

Jon Huntsman’s campaign has never really gotten off the ground. Will conservatives start taking him more seriously?

The Republican candidates for President have been mostly silent about foreign policy issues. That changes starting tonight.

Congressmen apparently regularly make investment moves based on the information they learn. Of course, for them it isn’t illegal.

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.

Interesting and significant goings on in Italian politics.

A three-way tie?

Details are still sketchy but two men are dead in separate shootings at Occupy Oakland (California) and Occupy Burlington (Vermont).

Rick Perry’s “oops” moment may have closed the door on his presidential ambitions but it has opened the window for a promising career as a comic.

The Penn State child rape scandal raises some questions about what the heck has happened to people.

Michael Ellsberg argues that “Trying to Learn Clear Writing in College is Like Trying to Learn Sobriety in a Bar.”

Last night, most of the leading Republican candidates for President acted as if Europe was on another planet.

Or, perhaps, the Perry Princple?