Outside the Beltway

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.

I’m blogging Mark Levin’s Conservative Manifesto. Here’s part one…

America’s foremost tax foe has weighed in on the Afghanistan War debate.

There was now snow on the ground in every single one of the 50 states — including Hawaii, which had snowfall on one of its volcanoes — except for Florida.

By this point in the last presidential cycle, there were already 14 major party candidates who had publicly announced. There are zero today.