Outside the Beltway

Hezbollah can tolerate the restoration of a synagogue, but many Americans are apoplectic about a Muslim community center and mosque two blocks from where the WTC once stood.

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

Colombia has sworn in a new president. And so begins the Santos era as the Uribe era heads for the history books.

The Republican campaign against birthright citizenship doesn’t seem to be gaining the kind of support they expected.

Lenders and Borrowers seem poised to make the same mistakes that brought about the last Housing Bubble all over again.

Wherein only one of the various consequences of altering the current status of birthright citizenship is considered: more paperwork for us all.

Is the GOP really serious about changing the citizenship rules in the 14th Amendment ? Not likely.

The Republican Party is keeping relatively quiet on the Proposition 8 ruling. That’s a good idea.

The First Family can go on vacation, but politics never does.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says there is no governmental or public interest in continuing a ban on gay marriage. But what about the will of his constituents?

Paul Krugman’s Medicare projections don’t line up with what the actuaries are telling us.

Sharron Angle’s views about the role of religion in politics are disturbingly similar to those of people who believe that the Bible itself should be the law of the land.

That attitudes towards gay marriage varies by state won’t surprise you. The degree to which it does just might.

Another bad jobs report demonstrates that the “recovery” is an illusion for many people.

Mitch McConnell and Al Franken provide a lesson in Senate comity.

The Obama Administration is dismissing the results of a referendum in Missouri that purports to strike down health insurance mandates.

While it is true, as Jacob Sullum puts it, On Drug Policy, Mexico’s President Has a Bigger Vocabulary Than Ours, it is also true as the headline at Gancho puts it he has Problems with the Legalization Debate (specifically in terms of popular opinion in Mexico).

A Southern Baptist Democratic president hated by conservatives is largely responsible for the rise of the American craft brew industry.

What impact will Judge Walker’s decision on Proposition 8 have on politics in 2010 and beyond ?

While it may be true that facts are stubborn things, a lot of American are stubborn in the face of them.

Sharron Angle has moved on from Second Amendment solutions to First Commandment ones…

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker today declared California’s Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional, thus opening the latest front in the gay marriage wars.

How does the Electoral College influence policy and campaigning?

Despite assertions that the violence in Mexico is spilling over the border, we find a rather stark comparison of two key border cities.

Despite her mis-steps, Sharron Angle still has a shot at beating Harry Reid in November

Missouri voters became the latest to express displeasure with the new health care reform law yesterday.

The American military is on a mission in Afghanistan that the public is increasingly starting to question.

A fatal car crash on a country road in Northern Virginia has become part of the national debate on over illegal immigration.

Not surprisingly, there is a great deal of disparity in terms of development on the two sides of the US-Mexican border.

The Democrats are pulling a trick from the Reagan playbook for the fall campaign. They might want to rethink that.

The FBI is mad that Wikipedia has published a copy of its seal on their site.