Outside the Beltway

George Allen is running for his old Senate seat.

NYT public editor Arthur Brisbane explains how it came to pass that his paper reported as fact the erroneous news that Gabrielle Giffords had been killed.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

Both Bill Kristol and Brit Hume had interesting observations about Palin’s “blood libel” speech today on FNS.

A poll that came out late last week purports show that Palin’s speech helped her public image. However, if we look at the numbers, that claim is a weak one.

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

Yesterday, Eric Fuller, one of the victims of last week’s shooting in Tuscon, blamed Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Glenn Beck and Sharron Angle for the tragedy. Today he was arrested for making a death threat to a local Tea Party leader.

People find the most interesting ways to justify something that is obviously wrong.

Bipartisan seating at the State Of The Union is a pointless act of political theater. Then again, so is the State Of The Union Address itself.

The American public still has a totally unrealistic view of what it will take to get the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order.

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

It’s Lee-Jackson Day again in Virginia, and, once again, I find myself wondering why the South continues to honor a dishonorable legacy.

Factions on the right and left continue to charge one another with trying to politicize the Tucson murders. They’re now nitpicking the memorial service.

There appears to be bipartisan support for repealing one of the most egregious tax rules in last year’s Affordable Care Act

Mitt Romney has hired my wife’s boss as his pollster.

One columnist argues that Sarah Palin’s response to the Arizona shootings mark the end of whatever political future she might have had. He’s probably correct.

Kay Bailey Hutchison will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate.

Palin’s “blood libel” speech continued to keep here in the conversation about Tucson, and not in a positive way.

Despite anecdotal evidence debunking global warming, 2010 was another record year for warm temperatures.

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.