Outside the Beltway

The same people who were complaining a week ago that the media was obsessed with Sarah Paln are now complaining that a media figure has suggested she doesn’t deserve the coverage she gets.

Didn’t we just talk about this?

Part two of the ongoing series blogging Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

For perhaps the first time ever, I find myself in total and complete agreement with Dana Milbank. Take the pledge: Give Palin a rest.

American states and localities, desperate for new sources of revenue, concoct some creative ways to tax.

Today’s Foreign Desk includes comments on Brazil’s floods, developments in Ivory Coast, and Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal.

Once again, the frontrunners for the 2012 GOP nomination aren’t looking very good at all.

Greg Mankiw has a plan for cutting the deficit.

We won’t be able to solve our fiscal problems until the American people grow up. So far, there are no signs of that happening.

What happened to the 15 million jobs that were supposed to be created in the past 10 years but weren’t?

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

Ok, oh scolders, what is it you want us to be blogging about in lieu of discussing a certain Hockey Mom?

Google no longer needs adult supervision.

Despite a bad week and a half, there are still signs that Sarah Palin is at least looking at a run for the White House in 2012. Which may be why some Republicans seem to be getting worried about her.

Time for midterms.

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was greeted with protests from some EU parliamentarians when he addressed them as its rotating president of the European Council.

After a fairly bad 2010, Barack Obama is starting off 2011 in a very good position.

Brief takes on foreign affairs

The newest WaPo/ABC News poll numbers.

Pedestrian fatalities are up. Experts blame Michelle Obama.

Like it or not, human rights is only at the top of the agenda for countries that otherwise don’t much matter.

In a move that surprises nobody, the House voted today to repeal last year’s health care reform law. Now it goes to the Senate where it will die.