Outside the Beltway

Think the auto bailout was a success? Think again.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

GOP stratgist Alex Castellanos issues a challenge.

Jon Corzine appears to be about to get a ‘Get Out Of Jail Free” card.

No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.

A black ‘Democrat’ who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008 is endorsing Romney in 2012. It’s not a big deal.

Another step in the ongoing diplomatic showdown over the founder of Wikileaks.

A columnist for The Guardian says she wishes her mother had aborted her.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

A gunman, possibly upset about FRC’s policies, shot a guard at the conservative Christian group’s Washington, D.C. offices this morning.

A victory for the proponents of Voter ID Laws in Pennsylvania.

There’s a large group of people out there that like the President, but they’re probably not going to vote.

This charge is false, as 10 minutes’ work by the Washington Post would have shown.

There’s a wee bit more to the “Progressive defended my sister’s killer” story that went viral yesterday.

People from blood groups A, B, and AB are at greater risk of heart disease than those with type O, a new study finds. Or does it?

Despite all of the gaffes, jobs reports, and various twists and turns that so fascinate pundits, the race has remained essentially unchanged since April.

Matt Fisher’s post “My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court” is going viral.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

Has the Romney campaign foolishly abandoned its best argument against the President?

Penn State has been reminded that there’s a third word in its name: University.

It just seems like a man can’t live out his creed without some negroidal handling his groceries these days.

There’s little evidence that Vice-Presidential picks have as big an impact on elections as pundits seem to think.

If a new Gallup poll is any indication, Paul Ryan was not a great pick.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

Another day, another mass shooting in America. Details are sketchy.

Some troubling, sad, and downright puzzling stories

How dominant were America’s women in the London Olympics? They’d have come in fourth place in the medal count in the US sent separate men’s and women’s teams.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.

Mitt Romney has effectively rebooted his campaign by picking Paul Ryan, but he’s also handed the President a powerful weapon.