Outside the Beltway

Why are all the candidates for president so awful?

Conservatives seem to believe that Newt Gingrich can beat Barack Obama merely by debating him. They are delusional.

It’s not just low wages that have kept technology manufacturing jobs out of the United States.

After a depressing and sad end to a storied career, Penn State’s legendary JoePa has passed away.

Last night, South Carolina was Gingrich Country.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

We, as a country, need to remember that do not hold levers that allow us to move events this way or that

Should journalists report things they happen to overhear in a public place?

People who ought to know better are now concocting absurd scenarios to get around a really weak Republican presidential field.

This year’s Iowa Caucuses stand as Exhibit A for an argument against Iowa being first in the nation.

The polls are open in the South Carolina.

Newt Gingrich has amazingly high unfavorables.

Getting to the heart of last night’s moment of kabuki theater.

Mitt Romney has stumbled this week, and may pay for it tomorrow, but he’s still the only candidate with a realistic chance to win the Republican nomination.

I can’t be the only one who cringed at his applause line: “To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine.”

The combined value of Apple’s stock is more than the GDP of some countries.

Ronald Reagan wasn’t really much a of a “Christian Conservative.”

It was another good night for Newt Gingrich in Charleston last night.

A Selection Of Speaker Gingrich’s Thoughts Over The Years

Some questions for opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around anymore.

There’s no law requiring Presidential candidates to release their tax returns. Should they be expected to do it anyway?

Newt constantly lays claim to the title “historian” and asserts it as evidence of his insights and as a qualification for office. As such, the quality of the claim matters.

Toby Harnden tweets, “What a debacle for Iowa. Hard to see why candidates should take Iowa caucuses seriously in future.

At least some of Mitt Romney”s investment money sits in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. Does it matter?

The race in South Carolina is going down to the wire.

A recount in Iowa has changed the final numbers, but we really don’t know who won.

Members of Congress are responding to the protests against SOPA and PIPA by withdrawing their support for the bills.

The Obama Administration has halted, for the moment, a pipeline project that has become a political football.

Mitt Romney made a suggestion about how to fix our campaign finance system. It’s a good idea.

The Republican frontrunner’s statements yesterday about his earnings and taxes went over like a platinum balloon.

Mitt Romney has a bit of a tax return dilemma.

The first shot in a Constitutional showdown has been fired.