Outside the Beltway

Can someone who doesn’t look like a GQ model make it in politics anymore?

There is literally no interest in a Giuliani presidential bid outside of Giuliani and those who might be employed by his campaign.

Beginning with “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building,” a series of tweets with the #CongressHostage hashtag have been decidedly unfunny.

Mitt Romney is still being dogged by charges of changed positions. Now, he’s trying to spin that as a good thing.

Rezwan Ferdaus, an American Muslim, has been charged with a major terrorist plot against his country.

Yet again, a state seeks to buck the primary calendar (and yet again it provides a chance to wonder why we have the nomination system we have).

The health care battle is formally joined in the Supreme Court.

Rick Perry’s slide in polls seems to be accelerating.

Sarah Palin apparently thinks having an actual job would be too confining.

In a shot across the bow of the current publishing model, Princeton is requiring professors to retain rights to their published work so that it may be freely distributed.

Why didn’t the government simply stop printing new dollar bills, making transition to coins non-optional?

Dick Morris has a penchant for counter-intuitive analysis. And for being wildly wrong.

Last night’s speech at the Reagan Library did nothing to stop people from speculating about Chris Christie’s Presidential plans.

The conspiracy by grocery store owners to turn us all into unpaid cashiers may be ending.

Neither political party is resonating with the public right now, and neither is acting in the manner the public would like.

House Energy and Commerce Committee “is investigating Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, requesting lots of docs.”

Despite all the negatives going against him, Mitt Romney may yet be the inevitable Republican nominee.

CNN may deny Jon Huntsman a spot in its October 18 debate.

College students finally seem to be listening to the market.

The latest revelations about Operation Fast And Furious raise more questions than they answer.

Is quoting President Obama without fixing his grammar “racist”? Some say it is.

The grass is always greener on the candidate not running (or something like that).

The Supreme Court is on track to issue its most anticipated ruling in years right in the middle a Presidential campaign.

62 percent of 21-year-olds aren’t in college.

Economists are beginning to wonder if this very slow economic recovery isn’t permanently altering the landscape.

Like clockwork, the arguments for creation of a third party are popping up again.

Debating proposed changes to the US military’s retirement system.