Outside the Beltway

Are we in the year twenty eleven or the year two thousand eleven.

The sitting RNC chairman is losing to a field of no-name candidates. Is he actually the favorite?

While our politics are seldom violent, our violence is often politicized.

Palin is missing an opportunity in the way she is dealing with the whole target graphic situation.

We really need a better understanding of mental health disorders in this county, and events like those over the weekend underscore this fact.

While I support a college playoff, there’s an argument to be made for the integrity of the regular season.

There’s a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn’t the one the media is talking about.

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

Orly Taitz, Queen of the Birthers, loses in court (again).

Should we limit the number of rounds guns can hold in order to minimize shooting sprees?

Over the past two days, Sarah Palin has become the center of the media firestorm over the tragic shootings in Arizona, she doesn’t belong there.

The debate over heated political rhetoric has now led one Pennsylvania Congressman to suggest that some speech should be banned. This must stop now.

Thankfully, attacks on members of Congress are a rarity.

The tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Arizona has started another debate about political rhetoric. It’s a stupid debate, and it’s utterly pointless.

Palin’s infamous “target” poster recycles a theme used by both parties over the years.

Graphic by Sarah Palin’s PAC had Gabriel Giffords’ district in the crosshairs

More breaking news on the shooting-in this case, about the shooter.

Note: while this post is brief, the news is of such significance that I felt it should be a headline story rather than relegated to a “quick pick”.