Outside the Beltway

Sarah Palin’s unfavorability ratings continue to climb. And there’s very little room for her recovery.

Joe Lieberman will not run for a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.

An obscure Arizona law has raised questions over whether Congressman Gabrielle Giffords could lose her seat if she is disabled for an extended period.

Sarah Palin was “interviewed” by Sean Hannity last night. I doubt she helped herself.

As noted recently, whites are leaving the Democratic Party in droves. Some black Democrats think it’s time to take affirmative action.

More on the strategery of civility.

While the violence is down in Iraq, it’s not gone.

The first poll assessing the political impact of last week’s events is out, and it has good news for President Obama, and bad news for Sarah Palin.

The American media and Sarah Palin have developed an odd symbiotic relationship, and it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

The current approach of the GOP to health care is not dissimilar to its approach to fiscal policy: not a lot of substance.

A new book by President Reagan’s youngest son raises allegations that the former President was showing signs of Alzheimer’s Disease while still in office, and that’s led to a family feud between the two Reagan brothers.

George Allen is running for his old Senate seat.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

Both Bill Kristol and Brit Hume had interesting observations about Palin’s “blood libel” speech today on FNS.

A poll that came out late last week purports show that Palin’s speech helped her public image. However, if we look at the numbers, that claim is a weak one.

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

Yesterday, Eric Fuller, one of the victims of last week’s shooting in Tuscon, blamed Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Glenn Beck and Sharron Angle for the tragedy. Today he was arrested for making a death threat to a local Tea Party leader.

Bipartisan seating at the State Of The Union is a pointless act of political theater. Then again, so is the State Of The Union Address itself.

The American public still has a totally unrealistic view of what it will take to get the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order.

It’s Lee-Jackson Day again in Virginia, and, once again, I find myself wondering why the South continues to honor a dishonorable legacy.

There appears to be bipartisan support for repealing one of the most egregious tax rules in last year’s Affordable Care Act

Mitt Romney has hired my wife’s boss as his pollster.

One columnist argues that Sarah Palin’s response to the Arizona shootings mark the end of whatever political future she might have had. He’s probably correct.

Kay Bailey Hutchison will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate.