Outside the Beltway

Some Northeastern Senators want to make selling fake maple syrup a federal offense.

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

College towns and lily white enclaves top the list of best educated cities.

KARK weatherman Brett Cummins was asleep in a bathtub with a dead man wearing a dog collar lying next to him.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

A political scientist whose formula has correctly picked every presidential winner since 1984 says Barack Obama will be re-elected.

Like Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry has something to say about evolution today and he handled it very differently.

The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani tops the latest CNN poll of Republican presidential contenders.

Tim Pawlenty may face trouble from a pardon he issued while he was Governor of Minnesota.

Mitch Daniels, the candidate of George Will and a host of mainstream Republicans hoping for something better in 2012, has announced he will not be running for president in 2012.

With Huckabee out, the right side of the GOP primary base may end up divided. And that will help Mitt Romney.

We won’t have Mike Huckabee to kick around in 2012.

A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.

President Obama is vulnerable, but he’s facing a GOP field that is underwhelming even for Republicans.

Arizona’s so-called “Birther Bill” seems to violate several provisions of the Federal Constitution.

Donald Trump is waiting to announce whether he’s running for president until after taping of “The Apprentice” concludes. Some thing NBC shouldn’t allow him to wait.

Donald Trump has been surging in polls of Republican voters recently, but that doesn’t mean much of anything.

Why did then-Governor Mike Huckabee’s office destroy all its office hard drives shortly before leaving office?

Quite improbably, Mike Huckabee seems to be positioned at the top of the GOP field right now. The only question is whether he really wants to run for President again.

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

With minor exceptions, all of the potential candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 seem to have accepted the idea that defense spending, and the Bush-era interventionist foreign policy, are off the table when it comes time to talk spending cuts.

Republicans are starting to sour on Sarah Palin, meaning that they’re finally starting to catch up to the rest of the country.

Overnight, we celebrate the biannual ritual of resetting all our clocks so as to save daylight. Oddly, the amount of daylight continues to heed its own rhythms.

Republicans begin to discover that defeating an incumbent President isn’t an easy task.

Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.

The home mortgage interest deduction benefits Democrat-voting states most! Is the fix in?

It’s straw poll season already. First up, New Hampshire where things turned out about how you’d expect them to considering Mitt Romney lives there now.