Outside the Beltway

President Obama is reportedly avoiding a visit to India’s Harmandir Sahib, or Golden Temple, for fear that he’ll be accused of being a Muslim.

Voters head to the polls in thirteen days, and current indications are that they’ll be handing a big victory to the Republican Party.

Lisa Murkowski, who lost the Republican primary, may be on the verge of winning re-election as a sore-loser write-in.

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party aren’t as clueless as their detractors think.

Recklessness.

Nineteen years after they ended, the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings are back in the news thanks to a voicemail that Thomas’s wife left for Professor Hill.

The story about the private security guards who “arrested” a journalist at a Joe Miller campaign event just keeps getting stranger by the day.

Actor Tom Bosley, best known for his role as Howard Cunningham on TV’s “Happy Days,” had died at 83.

It’s looking less and less likely that the GOP will gain control of the Senate, but they’re going to come awfully close,, and that might be just as good from their point of view.

Honors go to YahooNews and/or AP for “Levi Johnston wants to be mayor; has no platform.”

Remember that $400 tax cut President Obama gave you? Neither do 90 percent of Americans.

The blogosphere spends more time dissecting the lyrics of a classic Beatles song than John Lennon did in writing them.

Politico says 99 Democratic House seats are “in play.” They’re not. But dozens are.

Will Digital Video Recorders kill the campaign commercial? Unfortunately, no.

Salon has video of the aftermath of the Hopfinger handcuffing. Plus: if we remove the partisan labels and just assess what happened, would we view this situation differently?

Tom Brokaw notices something peculiar about the campaign debates: Nobody’s talking about Iraq or Afghanistan.

The retired superstar linebacker drove off a 30 foot cliff at 70 mph and walked away with barely a scratch.

An English instructor commenting at Balloon Juice takes issue with my characterization of taxation as “confiscating” income.

Republicans greatly fear the government — when Democrats are in power. And vice versa.

High earners are going to have to pay more than our fair share of the costs of government to make things work. But how we frame the debate matters.

Reason’s Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie have a pretty amusing rejoinder to the Obama administration’s attempts to smear the anonymous funding of television ads opposed to their agenda in a video titled “Who is Publius? or, Who’s Afraid of Anonymous Political Speech?”

The coalition of voters that propelled Barack Obama to an historic victory in 2008 is seemingly falling apart, and the President is reacting by blaming the voters.

If you’re looking for negative campaigning, personal insults, and all the other things that make American politics fun, look no further than Kentucky.

Today’s college students are 40 percent less empathetic than they were thirty years ago. Is our political culture to blame?

Don’t ask Senate candidate Joe Miller questions he doesn’t want to answer else his security team might cuff you.

Yesterday’s appearance by Carly Fiorina on Fox News Sunday provided an excellent example of how un-serious Republicans are when it comes to living up to their fiscally conservative rhetoric.

Polls show the Republicans easily retaking the House but falling short in the Senate. But 2006 showed us that wave elections can produce shocking outcomes.

Sarah Palin is at the center of a divide within the GOP that could become larger even as the GOP comes closer to regaining control of Congress.

Who’s to blame for the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, President Obama or those who have actually been encouraging bias against Muslims?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declare multiculturalism in Germany to be a “failure.” Proof that anti-immigration activists in the United States are correct, right?

Justice Alito said recently he won’t be attending the next State of the Union address. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acknowledged in a newly released letter that the Wikileaks Afghan War document dump wasn’t as damaging as the Pentagon initially claimed. So what was the uproar all about?