Outside the Beltway

President Obama explained his position on the Palestinian statehood resolution today, but one wonders if anyone listened.

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

The public supports the Presidents tax plans, but will that matter on Election Day?

Rick Santorum is tired of “filth” atop Google searches for his name and wants the company to do something about it.

The DOJ needs to go on a low-carb diet.

Historian J. David Hacker argues that the death toll from the US Civil War is much higher than we think.

Two-term New Mexico governor finally gets to share the stage with Herman Cain.

Rick Santorum: naked partisan. (Although, really, this is more a post about the EC than it is about Santorum).

President Obaama’s poll numbers are lower than where Reagan and Clinton were at this point, but not by very much.

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

AP does a FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries? The answer: Generally speaking, no. But it’s complicated.

The top marginal rate was radically higher in recent memory.

Rick Perry is still the GOP frontrunner, but his status far from secure.

Bill O’Reilly makes a convincing argument for raising taxes on the wealthy.

When someone calls Obama a Marxist, they’re exposing their own ignorance.

The second half of the President’s political strategy is in place. Don’t mistake it for a serious legislative effort.

The decision to split Netflix into two companies makes no sense. Unless you look behind the scenes.

In a truly bizarre move, Netflix is spinning off the DVD-by-mail business that built them into an international brand and going stream-only. Those wishing to keep getting movies will have to sign on to something called Qwikster.

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

Paul Krugman seems to believe that something like the bubble economy we enjoyed until it burst in 2008 could be had again if only our leaders were sufficiently bold.

As more details roll in on President Obama’s millionaire tax hike, it’s looking like it was drawn up by J. Wellington Wimpy: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.

Some perspective on “soaking the rich.”

We won’t solve our fiscal problems by soaking “the rich.”

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

President Obama is proposing a special tax rate for millionaires.

Where do we stand after 224 years?

Is there another explanation for Michele Bachmann’s decision to keep bringing Rick Perry’s HPV vaccine order up?

We’re getting close to the point where only two people on this stage will matter.

The economy continues to drag the President down.

Foolishly, the Palestinians are going forward with their effort to get Palestinian statehood recognized by the United Nations.

Public disapproval of Congress continues to fall.

Contrary to what Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman argue today, compassion does not require one to support government social welfare programs.