Outside the Beltway

The Republican National Committee throws the Fifth Amendment under the bus.

Get ready for a long, painful ordeal at the end of which we’re supposed to pick a President.

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

The gang at 22words feature an “Amusingly pissed-off letter to Continental Airlines about a seat by the lavatory” written back in 2005.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

Why the Internet is awesome: a Taiwanese animatronic take on the Secret Service hookers scandal.

My latest for The National Interest, “Turkey Cries Wolf,” has been posted.

“President Obama” is the answer to “one of these not like the others” in this world leaders photo taken during his Colombia visit.

American revolutionary leader George Washington has been voted the greatest enemy commander to face Britain, lauded for his spirit of endurance against the odds and the enormous impact of his victory.

Well, maybe a tiny one.

It would be nice if people in power would be a bit more introspective and thoughtful.

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

Republican Mitt Romney leads President Obama 46-44 in the latest Fox News poll of registered voters.

Further cementing his reputation as a sleaze bag, Newt Gingrich is now renting out the private information of his donors.

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

Alan Dershowitz says the prosecutor who charged George Zimmerman with second degree murder of Trayvon Martin was “irresponsible and unethical” and politically motivated.

If Mitt Romney loses, could the Establishment GOP manage to hold back the conservative backlash? Don’t count on it.

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.

Once again, those predictions of $5.00 gas may have been much ado about nothing.

James Joyner has had a couple of interesting posts over the last week concerning blog comments, especially here at OTB. Here are some more thoughts.

Picking the wrong target.

The Secretary of State is ignoring a hold by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman.