Outside the Beltway

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Did you know there was another GOP debate last night? Well, you didn’t miss much.

The venerable conservative columnist once endorsed Romney as a “good option for the Right” but now calls him “the pretzel candidate”

The failure of the personhood amendment should tell us at least three key things.

Mississippi voters easily defeated an amendment to the state constitution that declared life begins at conception.

A story from Herman Cain’s past is on the front page of Politico tonight.

Would Republicans really be crazy enough to nominate Herman Cain?

Quite improbably, Herman Cain remains at the top of the GOP field.

Many of the Republican candidates for President advocate ideas that would restrict the power of the Federal Judiciary.

As of now, there’s no reason to believe that Mitt Romney won’t be the Republican nominee in 2012.

Herman Cain’s comments about abortion could pose a problem for him with social conservatives.

It was a Las Vegas slugfest last night, but once again Mitt Romney walked away unscathed.

Is Mitt Romney’s religion returning as an issue for Republican voters?

Rick Perry has serious problems with what people think about his immigration position.

Mitt Romney is still being dogged by charges of changed positions. Now, he’s trying to spin that as a good thing.

House Energy and Commerce Committee “is investigating Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, requesting lots of docs.”

The Hoover Institution’s Henry I. Miller, MD takes to National Review to take on the subject of “Gardasil and the GOP.”

There was a somewhat disturbing moment during last night’s GOP Debate.

Assuming that the President is easy to beat could cause Republicans to move too far to the right.

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.

Rick Perry isn’t as radical as some on the left are saying, but that doesn’t mean he’s any good.

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

The Obama re-election campaign is preparing an extraordinarily negative campaign against Mitt Romney.

First it was same-sex marriage, now it’s a abortion. Rick Perry hasn’t met a Constitutional Amendment usurping state power he doesn’t like.

A somewhat surprising First Amendment decision arising out of the 2010 Elections.

A few liberal law professors say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should resign now so President Obama can pick her successor.

160 million girls are “missing” owing to selective abortion and cultural preferences for male children.

A setback for Planned Parenthood opponents.

Recent polls seem to indicate a shift in public opinion in a more libertarian direction.

Mitt Romney sought to clarify his pro-life bona fides yesterday. But, will it matter?

Mitt won’t sign the Susan B. Anthony List’s Pro-Life Pledge.

Michele Bachmann is not Sarah Palin.

Will last night’s debate have any influence on the potential candidates who weren’t there?

Here’s another way that Romney will be called a RINO.

Some people still think Mitt Romney’s religion is a relevant issue.

Tim Pawlenty said in a speech on Friday that America needs to “turn toward God.”

Is it appropriate for news organizations to decide that the people don’t need to hear from certain political candidates?