Outside the Beltway

Let’s keep our eye on the ball, people.

The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.

NYT columnist Nick Kristoff says America’s income inequality makes us a banana republic.

While health experts warn Americans to cut the amount of fat in their diet, the Federal Government helps businesses like Domino’s and Taco Bell promote high-fat products to the public.

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

As the campaign in Kentucky heats up for the final sprint to November, Rand Paul seems to have succeeded in moving beyond many of the mis-steps that plagued him three months ago.

American Conservatism has changed significantly since the days of William F. Buckley Jr. One former National Review editor says that it’s changed for the worse.

The Electoral College is the worst way to elect a President, except for all the others.

President Obama went on TV and said something true. What was he thinking?

According to Maureen Dowd, Barack Obama’s biggest problem is that there are too many white people in this picture.

Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.

Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

Thomas Jefferson took great pains to hide the word he originally used for “citizens” in the Declaration of Independence.

“It’s illogical to hunt a species to extinction.” – Spock

Are the majority of illegal immigrants drug-runners? Arizona Governor Jan Brewer thinks so.