Outside the Beltway

House Republican leaders want to repeal ObamaCare. But, even if the GOP takes over Congress, Obama will still have the veto.

It would appear that the only people who have confidence in the United States Congress are the people who work there.

Newt Gingrich says that because there are no churches in Riyadh, we shouldn’t allow a mosque in New York.

JournoList’s archives have been making headlines at The Daily Caller, but there doesn’t seem to be any substance to the allegations of scandal.

Most research shows that unemployment benefits/insurance increases the duration of unemployment.

Democratic Governor Joe Manchin appears to have no serious challengers for the late Robert Byrd’s Senate seat.

Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.

Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

Rural whites are outperformed by Jews and Asians and passed over by blacks and Hispanics in the name of “diversity” by elite universities.

Andrew Sullivan is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.

Democrats have opened up a 6 point lead in the Gallup generic ballot tracking poll, their first statistically significant lead of the cycle.

Is the left to blame for unpaved roads?

It’s a myth that the problem with Social Security is that people are living much longer after retirement than they used to. The reality is that a whole lot more people are living long enough to draw benefits.

While political junkies dissect every vote and utterance, most Americans vote based on their gut sense of how the economy is doing.

Sarah Palin tweeted, and took the wrong side in a story that doesn’t even deserve to be a controversy.

Yet another “hidden” provision of ObamaCare is revealed to hold nasty surprises for America’s small business owners.

Recent debates over the economic and fiscal impact of the Bush tax cuts indicate that Republicans still haven’t learned the lessons of the Bush years.

Oakland marijuana growers worry that regulation will turn their product from a niche specialty to a mass market commodity.

Vice-President Biden glances into the future and sees a relatively good year for Democrats. Is he right ?

Elena Kagan may be smiling because her confirmation is assured, but she doesn’t have as much public support as previous nominees.

Affluent, educated people in the DC policy community hold different views than the larger American public.

Nate Silver provides yet more bad news for Democrats: When screening for “likely voters,” Republican numbers look even better.

California has an initiative on the ballot this coming November to legalize marijuana. However, it’s not that easy.

Some Republicans in Congress are worried they won’t be able to control the future Congressmen and Senators that the Tea Party might be sending to Washington.

Virginia’s governor wants the state to get out of the liquor business after 76 years. It’s about time.

In Court filings the Obama Administration is arguing that the health insurance mandate is a tax, and if they’re right the legal challenges to ObamaCare are dead.

Biden got hammered by the FEC for violating campaign finance rules. A big fining deal?

Some Republicans seem to think they don’t need to put forward any actual ideas in order to win November.

Will a debate over foreign policy tear apart the GOP ? Probably not.

A bizarre rant in American Spectator contains some interesting thoughts about the nature of America’s political elite.

Reports of Barack Obama’s political death are greatly exaggerated and wildly premature.

When it comes to opinions about Sarah Palin, there is a striking difference between Republicans and Americans in general.

Think Progress incorporated clips of a Tea Party video of an impostor who pretended to be a member in order to discredit the movement as a racist into a video of their own to show that the movement is racist.