Outside the Beltway

A retiree with some rather strange views hosted a Tim Pawlenty event.

Michele Bachmann is not Sarah Palin.

A company called Hero Builders is offering this for sale

Despite the disdain for him on the the hard right, Mitt Romney is the man to beat right now in the race for the GOP nomination.

Our patience with those who repeatedly hijack the discussion thread to detract from the topic at hand has ended, effective immediately.

As with most of the other issues facing us, our political conversation about climate change and what to do about it basically just involves yelling at each other.

Here’s another way that Romney will be called a RINO.

How insurance makes health care more expensive

Is China’s drought caused by human action?

In an op-ed in The Hill titled “Enviro elitists keep America unemployed,” Rick Manning of Americans for Limited Government argues that one factor behind the anemic jobs picture is the onerous regulatory environment.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

Save water: Grow a beard.

You don’t often see a candidate for President tell Iowans that he wants to eliminate ethanol subsidies, but Tim Pawlenty did.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

No, Ron Paul is not a viable candidate for president.

Ohio State researchers: ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs.

Are we safer in high population areas?

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

The GOP seems to be losing the public relations battle over deficit reduction.

Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.

The birthers are dead (kinda), so long live the transcripters!

Why are many of the top Republicans are sitting out the race despite a seemingly vulnerable incumbent?

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

What is Donald Trump up to? Only he seems to know for sure.

The GOP seems to be telling President Obama that revenue increases are off the table. That’s a huge mistake.

Two new polls show that the public supports the budget deal, but has no idea what to do to solve our long term problems.

The Japan nuclear meltdown has now topped the scale used to measure such things, reaching the same level as the Chernobyl disaster. It’s a stupid scale.

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

Can a candidate appealing enough to the base to win the Republican nomination beat Obama?

A photo suggesting oral sex on the cover of a student newspaper has generated controversy.

The Japanese government has announced that the Fukushima Reactor suffered a partial meltdown.

It has become quite apparent that neither the White House nor our coalition partners have any idea what the path to an endgame in Libya even looks like. That’s not good.

The Nixon Center has gone from one of the most controversially named think tanks in Washington to yet another blandly named one: Center for the National Interest.

We’ve been hearing about peak oil for years. But now some experts are warning of an even more serious crisis: Peak coffee.

We’re heading towards a future of higher food prices and more hunger.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.