Outside the Beltway

President Obama explained his position on the Palestinian statehood resolution today, but one wonders if anyone listened.

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

The public supports the Presidents tax plans, but will that matter on Election Day?

Rick Santorum is tired of “filth” atop Google searches for his name and wants the company to do something about it.

The DOJ needs to go on a low-carb diet.

Two-term New Mexico governor finally gets to share the stage with Herman Cain.

Rick Santorum: naked partisan. (Although, really, this is more a post about the EC than it is about Santorum).

President Obaama’s poll numbers are lower than where Reagan and Clinton were at this point, but not by very much.

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

AP does a FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries? The answer: Generally speaking, no. But it’s complicated.

The top marginal rate was radically higher in recent memory.

Rick Perry is still the GOP frontrunner, but his status far from secure.

Bill O’Reilly makes a convincing argument for raising taxes on the wealthy.

When someone calls Obama a Marxist, they’re exposing their own ignorance.

The second half of the President’s political strategy is in place. Don’t mistake it for a serious legislative effort.

The decision to split Netflix into two companies makes no sense. Unless you look behind the scenes.

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

As more details roll in on President Obama’s millionaire tax hike, it’s looking like it was drawn up by J. Wellington Wimpy: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.

Some perspective on “soaking the rich.”

We won’t solve our fiscal problems by soaking “the rich.”

President Obama is proposing a special tax rate for millionaires.

Where do we stand after 224 years?

Is there another explanation for Michele Bachmann’s decision to keep bringing Rick Perry’s HPV vaccine order up?

We’re getting close to the point where only two people on this stage will matter.

The economy continues to drag the President down.

Public disapproval of Congress continues to fall.

Contrary to what Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman argue today, compassion does not require one to support government social welfare programs.

Far from being an existential crisis, the recent rise in public distrust in government is easily explained.

One provision of the President’s jobs bill would give an ill-advised right to the unemployed.

A book could be written on this subject, but let me suggest the following as a good place to start

James Carville has some advice for Barack Obama. It boils down to “be like Bill Clinton.”

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

More pay for play at the White House?

NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.

Of the institutions designed by the Framers, the electoral college is the one that deserves the least amount of defense if one’s defense is predicated on assumptions of the genius of said framers.

Last week’s opinions from the Fourth Circuit provide an avenue for the Supreme Court to avoid an early ruling on the individual mandate.