Outside the Beltway

Another allegation of sexual wrongdoing for Herman Cain.

You’d think that in today’s world employers wouldn’t have trouble finding qualified employees. You’d be wrong.

Could the GOP go into Tampa next August not knowing who their nominee will be? It’s possible, but not probable.

It was a good day for Newt Gingrich, but will it matter in the end?

My wife, Kimberly Webb Joyner, died this morning in her sleep from unknown causes. She was 41.

Can we credibly blame the CRA, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, and the like for the mortgage crisis?

Feeling abandoned by the Republican Party, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson is weighing a Libertarian Party bid for president.

A stark account of how American journalism has changed over the last half century.

Life, it turns out, isn’t fair.

Current events have underscored who holds political power in Egypt in the post-Mubarak era.

Once again, pundits are suggesting that New York’s Michael Bloomberg might run for President. Though nobody seems to be able to explain why.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” for 2011 is much different than their “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” for 2003.

Despite our rather obvious problems, we’re in great shape compared to the rest of the developed world and, especially, to even our fairly recent ancestors.

“The debt crisis is burrowing ever deeper, like a worm, and is now reaching Germany.”

We’re hearing the howls of a wounded bear.

Newt Gingrich spoke some truth on immigration last night, and that might hurt him with Republican voters.

Canada’s National Post have illustrated how the Anyone But Romney race has gone to date:

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

A Democrat sees doom and gloom as far as the eye can see.

Newt Gingrich, Republican frontrunner. Four words most people never thought they’d see together.