Outside the Beltway

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

Thomas Friedman is fantasizing about Michael Bloomberg again.

Time to prepare yourself for the incoming deluge of polling.

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

The Republican National Committee throws the Fifth Amendment under the bus.

Get ready for a long, painful ordeal at the end of which we’re supposed to pick a President.

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

Republican Mitt Romney leads President Obama 46-44 in the latest Fox News poll of registered voters.

Further cementing his reputation as a sleaze bag, Newt Gingrich is now renting out the private information of his donors.

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

If Mitt Romney loses, could the Establishment GOP manage to hold back the conservative backlash? Don’t count on it.

Picking the wrong target.

What would have happened if Sarah Palin had decided to run for the Republican nomination this year?

We may have Rick Santorum to deal with in 2016.

The Romney campaign is pushing back on the “Republican War on Women” meme with this infographic on “Women & The Obama Economy.”

Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, what happens to his delegates?

In case you needed more evidence that Allen West is a batshit crazy, he’s spreading rumors that 80 House Democrats are members of the Communist Party.

The Washington Post prematurely posted that Rick Santorum was dropping out of the race on its news wire and Bloomberg made the story viral while the Post was verifying its accuracy.

We won’t have Rick Santorum to kick around anymore.

The Obama administration admits its push for the “Buffett Rule” is not about dealing with our budget woes.

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has really good reasons for not wanting to be Vice President.

The jobs picture–and thus the overall economic forecast–becomes much gloomier with the release of the March Labor report.

Mitt Romney, who has law and business degrees from Harvard, is criticizing President Obama for having a law degree from Harvard.

Newt Gingrich is morally and intellectually bankrupt, so perhaps it’s no surprise that his health care think tank is now fiscally bankrupt.

Republican leaders seem resigned to a second Obama term. Here’s why it’s no slam dunk.

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

The race is over, Rick Santorum just won’t admit it.

The 5th Circuit has demanded a report from the president on his views about the power of the courts.