Outside the Beltway

Tropical Storm Isaac won’t be as much of a danger to Tampa as feared, but it’s still having an impact. That’s all because of bad scheduling ideas.

NYT executive editor Jill Abramson is shocked that her outgoing public editor thinks her paper “virtually bleeds” a “kind of political and cultural progressivism.”

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There’s little evidence it’s worked.

A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead.

The former Republican governor of Florida says his former party is so extreme that it holds positions he held two years ago.

For the second Presidential election cycle in a row, a tropical storm has resulted in the postponement of the first day events at the Republican National Convention.

A true pioneer passed away today.

One of these men is going to his party’s convention, the other is not. The reason why is rather obvious.

The fact that yesterday’s shooting at the Empire State Building resulted in nine civilians being injured by police bullets raises several questions.

New York’s police commissioner admits that his officers recklessly wounded 9 innocent bystanders at the Empire State Building yesterday.

Romney declared “I believe the president was born in the United States” on national television the day after he announced his 2012 campaign.

The fallout from Todd Akin’s rape comments on Sunday has exposed a rift in the Republican Party.

The GOP is set to approve rules changes that will impact the 2016 primaries, and beyond. They’re a good start.

Mitt Romney says his joke that “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate” wasn’t a swipe at the president and once again declared “There’s no question about where [Obama] was born.”

UVA says a presidential visit isn’t worth the hassle or expense. They’re right.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

An old woman with no painting skills was allowed to restore an old painting. Oddly, it didn’t turn out very well.

Signs are brewing that the Chinese economy is slowing down significantly.

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.

Lance Armstrong joins a long line of the greatest athletes of his generation whose glory was fueled by performance enhancing drugs.

Under German law, this ceremony, which Jews believe dates from the time of Abraham, is now illegal.

A former Obama official says government should learn from business, but is private industry really more efficient?

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

The erstwhile CalPundit starts his second decade strong as ever.

Wherein a National Review piece leads me to think I am the OTB alpha blogger.

The Romney/Ryan ticket has gained grown in Wisconsin and Florida, and is steady in Ohio, but they’ve got a Medicare problem.