Outside the Beltway

Worried the GOP might eliminate the filibuster if they gain control of the Senate? Don’t be.

Rick Santorum’s inability to stay away from the culture wars may have been his undoing.

Last night’s debate may have been the last one. It was also the least informative.

Virginia has become the latest battleground for advocates of laws that define life as being at conception.

A bill likely to become law in Virginia will require all women seeking abortions to undergo an invasive ultrasound examination.

The issue of contraception coverage and religious charities is not a new one, despite the way it may sound.

At the very least, nominating Santorum would let the GOP test a hypothesis that’s been debated for years.

Rick Santorum swept three states that are off the media radar screen. Will it revive his campaign?

If one has views that one will not change even in the face of the best case scenario for new data against those views, then one cannot claim to be an analyst.

Last night, we saw the beginning of the end of the Newt Gingrich campaign whether he realizes it or not.

Romney continues to roll up decisive victories while Gingrich gets increasingly bitter and nasty.

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

The backlash against the backlash is baffling.

Once again, the culture wars intrude into yet another area of life.

Requiring a religious institution to comply with civilian laws is not a violation of religious liberty.

An epic collapse in Florida should spell the end of Newt Gingrich’s presidential run. It won’t.

Bad Newt is back.

Is there any there there?

Ronald Reagan wasn’t really much a of a “Christian Conservative.”

It was another good night for Newt Gingrich in Charleston last night.

Mitt Romney’s rivals scored a few hits on him last night, but nothing that’s likely to make a difference.

A far-reaching decision from the Supreme Court protecting religious liberty.

Last night was the high point of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for the Presidency.

Mitt Romney is taking heat for his role at Bain Capital. He shouldn’t.

The former Utah governor will almost certainly never be the GOP nominee. But someone like him will be soon.

Watching last night’s debate, you would have been surprised to learn that Mitt Romney has any real opponents in the Republican race.

It was a photo finish in the Hawkeye State.

Ron Paul’s opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment would make a Paul Administration an enemy of civil liberties.

Heading into the last day of campaigning, the race in Iowa is too close to call.

Vehement disagreement with the policy views of a country and prejudice based on immutable traits are not the same.

A new Iowa polls shows Rick Santorum gaining support. Or does it?

Ron Paul is doing well right now solely because of the unique characteristics of Iowa and New Hampshire.

Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the role of the judiciary are very dangerous.

The final candidate clash of 2011 didn’t lead to the sparring that some expected.

Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.