Outside the Beltway

The capacity of some people to look the other way in the face of evil is astounding.

Where is the economy headed? The signals are mixed at best.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has set the House GOP adrift.

Ron Paul has a provocative new ad out asking Americans to imagine Chinese or Russian troops occupying Texas in the way American troops occupied Iraq and are occupying Afghanistan.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

For years, analysts have worried that Iraq’s tenuous hold on stability would collapse upon the withdrawal of US forces. We’re now watching it happen.

The Republican candidates for President are blurring what should be a pretty clear line.

A comment on the commentariat.

Some Republicans are starting to realize just how badly the House GOP has messed up this time.

Gary Johnson is jumping ship.

Iowa Republicans fear that a Ron Paul win on Jan. 3rd will destroy the credibility of their caucuses.

A gay man claims Newt Gingrich told him to vote for Obama.

Mark Richt, head football coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, inadvertantly broke NCAA rules by paying coaches and other employees extra money out of his own pocket.

A smoking gun?

The House GOP doesn’t seem to have any idea what it’s doing right now.

So what was it: taken out of context or written by someone else?

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

People who make a lot of money should whine less. But many of them are actually do create jobs.

Don’t look now but President Obama’s approval ratings are closing in on levels that point to re-election.

Newt Gingrich gets his Civil War history very wrong.

Welcome technological change, or crony capitalism?

Newt Gingrich has fallen into a statistical tie with Mitt Romney in the latest Gallup poll, mirroring his decline in other recent surveys.

Not surprisingly, people who are politically involved tend to be the ones that politicians listen to.

Ron Paul is rising in Iowa, which means he will soon face the scrutiny he’s avoided so far.

The trailer for the next Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is out.