Outside the Beltway

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

The same people who were complaining a week ago that the media was obsessed with Sarah Paln are now complaining that a media figure has suggested she doesn’t deserve the coverage she gets.

After a fairly bad 2010, Barack Obama is starting off 2011 in a very good position.

I’m blogging Mark Levin’s Conservative Manifesto. Here’s part one…

Sarah Palin released a statement today about the Arizona shootings and the debate that has followed. It’s unlikely to help her.

The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology.

Republicans have blocked a bill that would have helped rescue workers who became sick helping others at Ground Zero.

Internal memos reveal that Fox News spins the news in ways that favor conservative Republicans. Is that really news?

Michael Wilbon departs the Washington Post after more than 30 years to work full time at ESPN. Here are his last — and first — columns.

President Obama is already taking heat from the left for his compromise on tax cut extensions, but will it actually hurt him in the end?

California’s Proposition 8 faced another legal test in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, and the day didn’t seem to go well for opponents of same-sex marriage.

Those of us who think we’re overreacting to terrorism should remember that we’re in a tiny minority.

Nearly four weeks after Election Day, Alaska’s Joe Miller still won’t concede the inevitable.

Some on the right are beginning to realize that Sarah Palin’s popularity may cause a serious problem for the GOP in 2012.

Is the current media environment a problem for proper political discourse?

Rasmussen’s sample is biased because they’re polling on the cheap — using robocalls, which by law can’t dial cell phones, and otherwise cutting corners — rather than because of some agenda to propagandize for the GOP. The end result, however, is the same: Polls that can’t be trusted.

The growing number of cell-phone-only households gives Democrats hope that the polls are undercounting them.

Another poll confirms that Sarah Palin continues to be viewed negatively by the majority of American voters, but that doesn’t seem to matter to supporters who seem have a degree of adulation usually reserved for celebrities than serious politicians.

Yes, I think that Palin is running in 2012.

Washington City Paper editor Michael Schaffer has put out a satiric memo mocking the policies NPR and others have issued to reporters regarding this weekend’s Jon Stewart – Stephen Colbert rallies

NPR says it fired Juan Williams for remarks that were “inconsistent” with its editorial standards. In reality, it appears that Williams was the victim of the same convenient editing that cost Shirley Sherrod her job earlier this year.

Who’s to blame for the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, President Obama or those who have actually been encouraging bias against Muslims?

A history book used in Texas until 2003 mentions Islam more than Christianity. Much outrage ensues.

Did you know that more Christians than Muslims were victims of hate crimes in America? Did you also know that there are a lot more Christians? Oh. Never mind, then.

Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally raises, yet again, the tiresome fight over crowd estimates and their political significance.

The Lt. Governor of Tennessee suggested recently that religious freedom possibly shouldn’t apply to Muslims, but he’s only part of the problem.

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

Contrasting the treatment of two DOJ stories is a case study in media bias.

JournoList may not have been a conspiracy, but it was an example of what you might call an the closing of the journalistic mind.

Conservatives have long complained about liberal media bias. But conservative media seems to be much worse.

Parenting is hard work and kids are a giant pain. Is it worth it?

Using sexual arousal aids increases your chances of getting AIDS.

The testiest exchange during today’s hearings in the Senate came when Jeff Sessions tried to confront Elena Kagan over military recruiting at Harvard Law School, and failed miserably.