Outside the Beltway

College football will get a four-team playoff. What it’ll look like is anyone’s guess.

The Solicitor General had another bad day in Court yesterday.

How about we recognize that we do have ongoing and serious racial tension in this country rather than ignoring the issue most of the time and only deploying it when the game of politics is being played?

You’ve likely heard that Alabama’s 2011 football championship trophy was accidentally smashed last weekend by the father of one of the players. Now, as Paul Harvey would have said, for the rest of the story.

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

What we are seeing at the moment is the expected political churn that accompanies something as big as the PPACA case

Republicans are finally starting to realize that they are in trouble with Hispanic voters.

Is the Supreme Court risking it’s legitimacy if it strikes down the individual mandate?

David C. Levy argues college professors at teaching universities are overpaid because they don’t put in enough hours.

The results of Louisiana’s primary mean a lot less than the pundits will tell you they do.

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

Last night’s results ensure the race will continue to the convention.

Rick Santorum won the night, but Mitt Romney continues to win the delegate hunt.

Fox News’ Carl Cameron is reporting on a secret plot by the two most embarrassing candidates from the 2012 Republican field to team up in order to win an incredibly unlikely brokered convention.

A poll commissioned by the Alabama Education Association shows Mitt Romney with a rather surprising 10 point lead in the Heart of Dixie.

The race will go on after Super Tuesday, but the outcome seems ineviable

A new poll shows the current level of GOP support in the Hispanic community.

A new poll shows just how badly the GOP is doing among Hispanic voters.

Another Federal Court rules in favor of marriage equality, and the biggest news is how unsurprising the outcome of the case is.

So, you thought the people running the Iowa Caucuses, who had to count something like seven votes and yet declared the wrong winner, had egg on their face. Well, their buddies in Maine have upped the ante.

Revisiting a lively debate from over the weekend.

Mitt Romney won big last night, Newt Gingrich was Newt Gingrich, and the race is coming to the beginning of the end.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.

While the President’s recess appointments are bound to set off a political dispute with the Republicans, there does not appear to be a Constitution ban against them.

So, what’s next?

Republicans are learning that their hard line on immigration comes with a political price.

The Panthers rookie is having a historic season. Were doubts that he could succeed colored by race?

Facing his own Tea Party challenge, Richard Lugar reminds Republicans of an uncomfortable truth.

Newt Gingrich spoke some truth on immigration last night, and that might hurt him with Republican voters.