Outside the Beltway

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The news that Obama aides discussed a change to the 2012 ticket is part of the latest Halperin/Heilemann campaign history.

In a show of marketing savvy that put Detroit where it is, Lincoln is rebranding itself as Lincoln.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

Today is the anniversary of a significant turning point in the Civil War.

The GOP still hasn’t dealt with the legacy of George W. Bush.

Two words spoken by a Romney aide have led to a ridiculous firestorm on the right, while the rest of their comments are being ignored.

In advance of tomorrow’s ruling, some pundits on the left are displaying some very odd views on the role of the law in American politics.

Three swing state poll results should be raising some real concerns among Team Romney today.

London’s iconic clock tower, known affectionately as “Big Ben” for some 150 years, has been renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in honor of QE2’s 60 years as royal figurehead.

We don’t know what the Supreme Court will have to say about the Affordable Care Act, but their decision is already being attacked.

Mitt Romney thinks prospective Presidents should be required to have business experience.

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

It looks like we’ll have Newt Gingrich to kick around for awhile.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of religion in public life are built on lies about American history.

A Selection Of Speaker Gingrich’s Thoughts Over The Years

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

Many people seem to have a rather inappropriate view of their relationship to the President of the United States.

Mitt Romney said the other day that the 2012 Election is about “the soul of the country.” This is most assuredly not true.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

Newt Gingrich gets his Civil War history very wrong.

Newt Gingirch ups the ante in his rhetorical assault on judicial independence.

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

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. believes the Congress is “in rebellion” and therefore President Obama should exercise extraordinary constititutional means” to implement a massive jobs plan.

“Straight talkers” like Chris Christie make for lousy leaders.

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

Are we placing far too much importance on how someone does in a two hour so-called “debate”?

Where do we stand after 224 years?

Rick Perry will need to get past Michele Bachmann before he takes on Mitt Romney. But, really, how hard could it be?

Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal sent a warning to his fellow Republicans. Too bad they probably won’t listen.

Former Serbian commander Ratko Mladic has been arrested for alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.

A day after apologizing for an odd comment about the President’s upbringing, Mike Huckabee now feeds into the conservative myth that Barack Obama isn’t a real American.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.