Outside the Beltway

The battle lines are being drawn for another showdown over the debt ceiling.

Marriage has always been an evolving institution.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

Recall elections in a hyper-partisan atmosphere are not a good thing.

Some Republicans see the light on same-sex marriage. Whether the party will listen is another question.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

He may be running against Barack Obama, but Mitt Romney seems to mention Jimmy Carter a lot.

Mitt Romney wimped out. Again.

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

Harry Reid is apparently regretting not going forward with filibuster reform in January 2011.

The Founders would never have thought to do more than count people in the Census!

There may be reason to doubt reports alleging that Mitt Romney engaged in vicious bullying of a gay classmate as an 18-year-old prepster.

Americans are getting pessimistic about the state of the economy again.

Another example of Republican foreign policy taking precedence over fiscal conservatism.

Some blogger wants to pay someone to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts. It’s time for this silliness to end.

How the Vice-President’s comment’s on Meet The Press led to an historic Presidential announcement.

The battle is on for control of the Senate, but whoever wins is likely to have a very slim majority.

All of a sudden, people are talking about Mike Huckabee as a potential Romney running mate.

The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

A blog post lampooning black studies dissertations got a writer fired, setting off a controversy over the limits of free speech.

Some thoughts on the potential impact of the President’s announcement on same-sex marriage.

The same-sex marriage pivot that everyone was expecting has come.

There are a number of problems with the notion that the Federalist Papers provide a perfect guide to the Constitution.

Further thoughts on Ron Paul’s game plan, assuming he has one.