Outside the Beltway

Unnamed Republican leaders are lined up to ensure that anybody but the former VP nominee is the party’s 2012 standard bearer.

Another poll confirms that Sarah Palin continues to be viewed negatively by the majority of American voters, but that doesn’t seem to matter to supporters who seem have a degree of adulation usually reserved for celebrities than serious politicians.

Yes, I think that Palin is running in 2012.

Mike Huckabee is the latest Republican to tack up the banner against the so-called “elites.”

Justice Alito said recently he won’t be attending the next State of the Union address. Sounds like a good idea to me.

A new law allows Presidential candidates to set up transition offices while they’re still running for election, perhaps providing an opportunity for shortening the 2 1/2 month interregnum between Election Day and Inauguration Day.

If Sarah Palin isn’t running for President, why is she comparing herself to Ronald Reagan ?

A new Gallup poll shows President Obama beating Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical 2012 Democratic nomination fight. Nobody should be surprised by that.

The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

For the moment, the Tea Party movement is helping pull the GOP out of a slump that seemed like it would continue for a long time. Will it last, or will the movement end up doing for Republicans what the left has done for Democrats ?

America’s mission in Iraq is shifting from an active combat role to a smaller security presence. But the war that gripped our attention for years is now off the radar screen.

Sarah Palin’s decision to jump to the defense of “Doctor” Laura Schlessinger has many Republicans confused as to what her plans for the future are.

As many American soldiers have died in Afghanistan under Obama as under Bush.

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

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.

In the first entry in this series we looked at a basic question of democratic theory. In this one, we look at whether the EC ever worked as the Framers intended.

Barack Obama was a big hit on college campuses in 2008. Two years later, those same young voters seem to be having second thoughts.

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

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

Is it really too much to ask that when people try to make arguments based on our country’s founding documents that they at least understand the passages that they are quoting?

A new poll shows that Americans have some odd ideas about the Constitution, and how to change it.

A survey of historians ranks Obama as the 15th best president ever, ahead of Ronald Reagan and behind Bill Clinton.

The most shocking news about Larry King’s retirement announcement was the realization that he was still on the air.

Another poll brings bad news for the White House.