Outside the Beltway

The connections between the White House and failed solar energy company Solyndra deepen.

Reports are coming out of Libya that paint the Libyan rebels in a very unkind light.

Did World War II teach us anything about spending-as-stimulus? Not really.

Thank goodness, the July PCE numbers look pretty good compared to recent months. Lets hope it is something that will continue.

Obama’s economic policies are failing because he’s listening to conservatives – not small businesses.

WaPo humor columnist Gene Weingarten doesn’t think DC’s speed cameras are funny.

Matthew Yglesias resurrects an argument that should have died off when Napster disappeared.

Did Speaker Boehner insult President Obama by snubbing his speech request? If so, so what?

Another bad report from the Labor Department.

Understanding why your enemy hates you seems to be an important thing, but some people would rather believe in caricatures.

The White House is still smarting over the fact that they got burned by John Boehner, again.

How a six hour long dispute over scheduling demonstrates yet again that Barack Obama isn’t up for the fight.

Raw Story tweeted “Republicans in Rep. Giffords’ district plan to raffle off the same type of gun Jared Loughner used. ” This links to their own story demonstrating that they’re doing no such thing.

The failure of a solar energy firm in California is raising questions about a centerpiece of the Administration’s economic policy.

Jon Huntsman is out with a tax and jobs plan that deserves a lot more attention than it’s likely to get.

The debt ceiling debate may turn out to be Obama’s Katrina.

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.

Excluding all moral concepts and language from my thinking, feeling and actions has proved so workable and attractive, I am convinced that anyone who gives it a fair shot would likely find it to his liking.

Arthur C. Clarke predicts the future on a 1964 BBC Horizon program.

How hard is it to schedule one measly jobs speech?

Rick Perry isn’t as radical as some on the left are saying, but that doesn’t mean he’s any good.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.

How would a Democrat-equivalent of Rick Perry be received?

Do the less attractive deserve legal protection? One University Of Texas Profess thinks so.

Supreme Court nominees were confirmed quite easily within recent memory. What’s changed?

Tim Cook is succeeding Steve Jobs as head of the world’s biggest technology company. Does it matter that he’s gay?

A political scientist whose formula has correctly picked every presidential winner since 1984 says Barack Obama will be re-elected.

Romney’s VFW speech was filled with tropes and bromides but nothing that should raise eyebrows.