Outside the Beltway

The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.

A top Saudi cleric says nothing in the Koran forbids women from driving cars.

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is speaking positively about an Amendment that would drastically alter the relationship between the Federal Government and the states, and a method of ratifying it that could do serious damage to the Constitution as a whole.

Mike Bloomberg says we’re electing people to Congress who “can’t read” and “don’t have passports.”

Another Federal Judge dismisses a Constitutional challenge to the health care reform law, and demonstrates just how unlikely it is that any of the lawsuits against the law will be successful.

The Republican Party is united on the issues in a way it hasn’t been in a long time, but personalities threaten to tear the fragile coalition apart.

Is there really anyone who can credibly argue at this point that the policy regarding homosexuals openly serving in the armed services is anything other than basic discrimination?

The Pentagon has spoken. Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would not cause any real harm to the military, they have said. Now, the ball is in the court of the United States Senate.

Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough wants the GOP to stop kowtowing to Sarah Palin and her acolytes. He’s right.

Is President Obama’s Federal pay freeze a sign that he’s moving to the right, or just pointless symbolism?

Roughly 150 years ago, the CSA was born. Is this something worthy of celebration?

President Obama’s plan to free federal employee pay is getting praised by Republicans but is wildly unpopular among progressive activists.

Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to raise “Serious Questions about the Obama Administration’s Incompetence in the WikiLeaks Fiasco.” They’re more interesting than I’d expected.

After 1 1/2 years in office, President Obama has yet to grant a single request for a pardon or clemency, continuing a thirty year trend in which the Presidential pardon power has nearly fallen in to disuse.

President Obama proposes freezing federal civilian salaries for the next two years, saving billions in anticipated spending.

Another FBI sting operation results in the arrest of a “terrorist,” or did it create a crime where none existed before?

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

McCain brings up “regime change” in re: the DKRP and China apparently isn’t doing enough.

Nearly four weeks after Election Day, Alaska’s Joe Miller still won’t concede the inevitable.

The Republican talking point that lowering taxes lowers spending and raising taxes increases spending is denied by reality.

Former Senator Alan Simpson is fighting back against the critics on the left and the right who are shooting down the Deficit Commission’s plan before it’s even been released.

The over-hyping of President Obama’s lip getting cut while playing basketball is a bit much.

David Broder, three weeks after the election, explains “What Murkowski’s write-in win says about the electorate.”

Tom DeLay is a sleazebag and has been found guilty by an Austin jury for skirting the law. But it may in fact be a miscarriage of justice despite the victim being as unsympathetic as it gets.

There is a simple mathematical equation that explains why deficit reduction is so difficult.

President Obama is likely join the ranks of the unemployed come noon on January 20, 2013 if a Fed forecast is right.

If some security “experts” get their way, the security procedures we encounter at airports could start showing up elsewhere. Will Americans stand for it?

According to a new poll, the Tea Party movement, which is largely now the base of the GOP, is not completely in step with the views of American voters as a whole.