Outside the Beltway

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.

With all the birther talk these days, it’s probably time to question whether we even need the “natural born citizen” rule anymore.

The GOP seems to be telling President Obama that revenue increases are off the table. That’s a huge mistake.

France’s top court refused to allow French citizenship for 10-year-old twin girls born to a surrogate mother in the United States.

The war on childhood fun reaches the East Coast.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has mastered the worlds of bodybuilding, show business, and politics. Next, he’s going to try his hand at being a Marvel superhero.

Nor, it would seem, are really tired clichés.

Donald Trump, who may or may not be running for President, is continuing his strange obsession with the birther myth, and reminding Republicans that two years of silence in the face of lunacy may come back to bite them.

Former Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton Warren Christopher has died

Republican budget cuts to this point have been less than serious.

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

The damage in Japan from today’s quake is dramatic and heartbreaking.

The first wave of the tsunami caused by the Japanese earthquake is expected to strike Hawaii at 8:00am EST.

The Nixon Center has gone from one of the most controversially named think tanks in Washington to yet another blandly named one: Center for the National Interest.

Wisconsin Republicans stripped state employees of collective bargaining rights without the Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a quorum.

Two new polls reflect the extent to which public attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed dramatically over the past twenty years, and it’s only a matter of time before that’s reflected in the law.

Scott Walker’s attempt to crush the Wisconsin public employee unions may be the first wave in a fight to elect Republican governors in 2012.

A former Democratic state attorney general thinks Wisconsin’s Republican governor may have violated state ethics laws while on a prank phone call.

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

Huge news in the marriage equality debate today as the Obama Administration has decided not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court anymore.

Four U.S. citizens on a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates last week are dead. American military have killed the pirates.

It’s time to end the ability of public sector labor unions to hold taxpayers hostage.

Neither side is covering themselves in glory in the battle over the Badger State budget.

A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

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

An interpretation of the events in Egypt.

Sarah Palin spoke about Ronald Reagan last night, but seems to have forgotten the optimism that is part of The Gipper’s legacy.

Virginia Thomas’s political activism is once again a political issue.

A 2005 concurring opinion from Antonin Scalia may be the piece of legal reasoning that ultimately saves the Affordable Care Act in the Courts.

Drivers are suddenly finding that they can’t renew their drivers license because other states have imposed a hold, sometimes for outstanding tickets dating to the Reagan administration.

The US drug policy gang: Dopey, Boozy, Smokey and Stupid?