Outside the Beltway

What lessons can we draw from the Wisconsin Recall?

Why isn’t the American middle class and working class angrier at the 1 percent?

None of the cable news networks did particularly well last night.

Because, of course, the ends justify the means.

A contentious political battle that has lasted a year has come to an end.

The case against Proposition 8 is headed to the Supreme Court.

In an ideal world, today’s Recall Election in Wisconsin would not even be legally possible.

Funny or Die gives us “The Wire: The Musical.”

Republicans apparently think that re-running the 2008 campaign, just more efficiently or more ruthlessly, will work this time. Here’s why it won’t.

NASA was in need of new telescopes and got a helping hand from their good pals at the DoD.

New York’s Governor is proposing a change in the law that could spare thousands of people a year from an unnecessary trip through the legal system.

There is a disturbing trend in Western nations toward enforcement of laws against “insulting” religions.

Health care is eating up 10 percent of the Pentagon’s budget and rising fast.

Washington has become the first state in decades to privatize its state-run liquor stores. They’ve coupled this with onerous fees on private distributors.

Another sign this morning that the economic has been slowing, and may be contracting.

Barring an upset, Scott Walker looks likely to survive his recall election tomorrow.

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

87% of those who gave at least $200 to Barack Obama in 2008 have not yet done so in 2012.

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

A spate of bad economic news foretells a shift in the campaign for President.

Mitt Romney thinks prospective Presidents should be required to have business experience.

Jeb Bush is the latest Republican to eschew GOP tax orthodoxy.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

Vetting, media bias, and a passing swipe at the war on terror.