Outside the Beltway

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

As the night of the State Of The Union Address approaches, the silliness in Washington has been taken up a notch.

Republicans in Idaho are talking about resurrecting the foolish and discredited idea of nullification as a weapon in the fight against ObamaCare.

Comedienne Joan Rivers tells Howard Stern why she ditched a joke calling Michelle Obama “Backie O.”

It’s straw poll season already. First up, New Hampshire where things turned out about how you’d expect them to considering Mitt Romney lives there now.

Demanding that the new GOP House hold the line at the current number is satisfying rhetorically, but all-but-impossible politically.

The same people who were complaining a week ago that the media was obsessed with Sarah Paln are now complaining that a media figure has suggested she doesn’t deserve the coverage she gets.

Part two of the ongoing series blogging Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

American states and localities, desperate for new sources of revenue, concoct some creative ways to tax.

Today’s Foreign Desk includes comments on Brazil’s floods, developments in Ivory Coast, and Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal.

Once again, the frontrunners for the 2012 GOP nomination aren’t looking very good at all.

We won’t be able to solve our fiscal problems until the American people grow up. So far, there are no signs of that happening.

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

Ok, oh scolders, what is it you want us to be blogging about in lieu of discussing a certain Hockey Mom?

Despite a bad week and a half, there are still signs that Sarah Palin is at least looking at a run for the White House in 2012. Which may be why some Republicans seem to be getting worried about her.

Time for midterms.

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

After a fairly bad 2010, Barack Obama is starting off 2011 in a very good position.

The newest WaPo/ABC News poll numbers.

In a move that surprises nobody, the House voted today to repeal last year’s health care reform law. Now it goes to the Senate where it will die.