Outside the Beltway

The John Edwards trial is over. This should be the end of the matter.

An unsurprising decision on the Defense of Marriage.

Yet more evidence that this is shaping up to be a very close election.

New York City’s Mayor wants to control the size of soft drinks.

You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.

The economic statistics aren’t pointing in a very optimistic direction.

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

Romney comes down firmly on the guns side of guns and butter.

We, as Americans, tend to have a limited knowledge of the institutional variation that exists across democratic systems around the world.

Yes, it is too hard to amend. A few quick thoughts on the subject.

Did the Founding Fathers make it too hard to amend the Constitution? No, they didn’t.

Mitt Romney continues to keep Donald Trump close. It makes no sense, but it isn’t likely to matter in the end.

How can opinion shift quickly on a given topic?

Alan Simpson is imparting wisdom to his fellow Republicans. I doubt they will listen.

For the first time in 68 years, neither major party candidate for President has served in the military. Does this matter?

Illinois wants to solve its Medicaid problem by hoping its citizens smoke more cigarettes.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.

The phrase “American Taliban” is usually off the mark. However, sometimes it is closer to the mark than we might like.

The City of Detroit appears ready to abandon vast sections of itself to the metaphorical jungle.

Is President Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage helping to create a change in opinion on the issue among African-Americans?

Mitt Romney gained some ground in Swing State polling, but that just makes clear how narrow his path to 270 Electoral Votes actually is.

Does the fizzled out Facebook IPO tell us anything about the state of the economy? Not really.