Outside the Beltway

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

Proving yet again that the plural of anecdote is not data.

Protesters in the Chinese fishing village of Wukan are now in open revolt against the Chinese government. The government is laying siege to the town.

Do American courts throw people in jail for failing to pay their debts? No, they don’t.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

America’s greatest statesmen fear America’s political paralysis endangers our ability to lead the world.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Usually if a quote is too good to be true, it is.

Air Force personnel charged with transporting the bodies of American soldiers killed in action apparently finds dead American warriors funny.

Back in the late 90s, Newt wanted to execute marjiuana traffickers.

More in common than they might think.

A new Gallup poll indicates that it is Big Government, not Big Business, that most concerns the American public.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

Fareed Zakaria thinks we’re wasting too much time playing Angry Birds.

Yesterday’s encounter between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was less than it could have been.

Savage has offered Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the race and Beck has said that he’d vote for Ron Paul as a third party candidate rather than supporting the former Speaker.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

Christiane Amanpour, who’s losing audience share for ABC’s “This Week” Sunday show, may be on her way back to CNN.

How likely is it that a GOP Senate would eliminate the filibuster? Not very.

Paul Krugman’s latest column, “Depression and Democracy,” is simply bizarre.

A lesson in why the topline poll numbers are often only the beginning of the puzzle.