Outside the Beltway

Simply amazing.

The Supreme Court seems likely to severely limit the use of race-based preferences at public universities

Of course, these voters are walled off from the process, so they don’t matter.

One pollster has called three battleground states 27 days early.

Yet another in a long line of critiques of the electoral college.

Virginia went Republican in every presidential contest from 1968 to 2004. It’s likely to vote for Barack Obama again five weeks from now.

The Court’s 2012-2013 term begins tomorrow morning, and there are plenty of big cases on the docket.

Not exactly journalism.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

The Obama Administration’s response to the protests in the Muslim world has been entirely wrongheaded.

The Libertarian Party’s Presidential candidate could prove decisive in determining who wins the Electoral College.

When it comes to issues like medical marijuana, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are reading from the same playbook.

“Growing up in California, it was illegal for Asians to marry whites. How times have changed. I married a white DUDE.”

Condoleeza Rice’s first trip onto the political stage was very successful last night. Where will she go from here?

Economic growth is the key to fixing many of our problems. Unfortunately, we’re not likely to see the kind of growth we need any time soon.

Jeb Bush continues to speak the truth on the GOP’s position on immigration issues. Sadly, his fellow Republicans aren’t listening.

I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

Will an MRI of your brain someday be able to tell if you’re lying? And, if it can, should it be admissible in Court?

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

Two groups of former special operations soldiers are opposing Obama. Their military bonafides are not their most interesting credentials.

Mitt Romney has effectively rebooted his campaign by picking Paul Ryan, but he’s also handed the President a powerful weapon.

The most recent round of national polling seems to show that the negative attacks on Romney are having an impact.

In my adult memory, the American South was a one-party Democratic region for all but presidential elections. Aside from minority set-aside districts, the reversal is near complete.

Harry Reid is a scoundrel, not a hero.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

The novelist, playwright, and social critic Gore Vidal has died, aged 86.

Who should bear the cost of extra policing for candidate events?

Andrew Hacker argues that, while quantitative skills are “critical for informed citizenship and personal finance,” making kids master algebra to graduate high school has disastrous consequences.

As public education continues to wallow in the past, some parents are looking elsewhere for alternatives.

Kevin Drum has been writing about his cat, Inkblot, most every Friday for the last decade. Sadly, he’s been missing since Tuesday night.

Nicholas Kristoff figures that, if we can’t ban guns, we can at least make them safer.

Because of a culture where being first is more important than being right, ABC News made a few mistakes in its Friday morning coverage of the Colorado shootings.

In a stunning reversal of policy, DOD is allowing soldiers to march in a gay pride parade in uniform.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.