Outside the Beltway

Are the American people tuning out of politics altogether?

Should we just hand “marriage” over to churches and have civil unions for everyone else?

Maggie Gallagher’s anti-gay marriage argument is an example of pure conservative thinking.

One analyst sees a way that the current GOP race could indeed lead to a brokered convention.

Mitt Romney has apparently realized that people don’t like him much, so he’s working to come across as less robotic.

Are culture war issues about to make a comeback in the 2012 campaign?

Rick Santorum swept three states that are off the media radar screen. Will it revive his campaign?

Yep, more gridlock.

Romney polls the winner in any head-to-head matchup within the GOP candidiate pool.

Once again, a government entity thinks the average person is too dumb to take care of themselves.

A victory for proponents of same-sex marriage today in the Ninth Circuit.

The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.

If one has views that one will not change even in the face of the best case scenario for new data against those views, then one cannot claim to be an analyst.

As they did four years, ago the New York Giants will get a parade in New York City today. Some are wondering when Iraq War vets will get theirs.

Was Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad a political message, or just a well done commercial?

Will the Obama Administration’s decision on contraceptive coverage by the Catholic Church have an impact in November?

Trying to open a new business can be a massive and costly headache.

US society cannot so easily be placed into a maker/taker divide

Last night, we saw the beginning of the end of the Newt Gingrich campaign whether he realizes it or not.

The majority of all rapes in America take place in prison. Which means the majority of rape victims are likely men.

Romney continues to roll up decisive victories while Gingrich gets increasingly bitter and nasty.

The tinfoil hat crowd has made its way back into the mainstream.

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.

The Birthers have suffered yet another totally predictable loss in Court.