Outside the Beltway

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen argues that it’s time to put the debate over the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill mess to rest. He’s right.

Reports of voting irregularity in precincts across the country are threatening to further undermine voter confidence in the legitimacy of election outcomes. There’s a simple solution.

It’s apparently legitimate to call Sarah Palin a liar without producing any evidence or bothering to check facts.

Paul, World Cup ‘psychic’ octopus, dies in Germany.

The PL issues a statment on immigration policy.

A poster at RedState demonstrates how not to approach the issue of race in politics.

Political pundits love centrism and moderate candidates. But political movements are built on desire for broad change.

It’s unlikely that the Chinese yuan will replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency any time soon.

Has Uncle Sam got a deal for you: Lend the Treasury money for five years and it will only cost you negative 0.55 percent!

The GOP looks likely to win substantial victories next Tuesday, and may even take control of both Houses of Congress, but they’ve already made their own failure inevitable.

Republicans are promising two years of gridlock and obstructionism if they take control of Congress, but is that really what the people who are likely to vote for them next week really want?

Is angry and violent language which dominates blog comments sections a sign of broader trends in our political culture?

Political columnist John Heilemann thinks he’s come up with a scenario that would put Sarah Palin in the White House, but his assumptions don’t add up.

Tumblr called “Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things” shows that there’s no such thing as “Muslim garb.”

Automated constructive blog comments cartoon fro xkcd.

If you’re like me, you think of William Shakespeare’s plays as being rendered in an archaic but decidedly upper crust British English. It turns out that this is an artifact of modern theater.

Merle Haggard is not gay. But he’s been retroactively gay married — twice! — for want of a comma.

Mike Huckabee is the latest Republican to tack up the banner against the so-called “elites.”

Charles Murray argues that the Tea Party is right to complain about out-of-touch elites.

Instead of decades-old retreads like talking about abolishing the Department of Education, it would be nice if we had a real debate about the fiscal circumstances in the country.

The numbers coming out of the first few weeks of early voting confirms the enthusiasm gap that pollsters have been talking about for months.

The next generation of the Windows operating system is about two years away. Does anyone care?

A call for ideological purity in the Democratic Party in today’s New York Times demonstrates that Democrats can be just as foolish as Republicans.

Thanks to races in as many six states that may be decided by absentee and write-in ballots, we may not know the outcome of the 2010 Elections for several weeks after Election Day.

We already knew that Hamid Karzai was corrupt, now we know he takes bribes from the Iranians.

There’s a trend toward using metrics to identify ways to stem the skyrocketing cost of higher education. The likeliest result is to devalue the “education” component.

At least in Nevada, there appears to be little evidence of an enthusiasm gap between Republicans and Democrats, which is potentially good news for Harry Reid.

Michigan Iraq War veteran gets NOT FUN vanity plate.

Jane Austen was a poor speller and sloppy grammarian but her published words were precise and exquisite thanks to her editor, William Gifford.

New multifunction credit cards will soon change the way Americans handle simple transactions.

Being a political blogger during election season is getting to be rather infuriating, especially if all you want to do is check your email.