Outside the Beltway

Would you like President Obama to speak at your graduation? You’re the only one.

Why is Charlie Sheen seen as likable despite his serial abuse of women?

Mike Huckabee channels Dan Quayle when he decides to comment on the pregnancy of Oscar winner Natalie Portman.

As the standoff in Wisconsin drags on, there is no sign that the public accepts the argument being made about public sector unions by Governor Scott Walker and other Republicans.

A New York judge has sided with comedian Jerry Seinfeld in a bizarre lawsuit by a crazy woman who writes cookbooks.

Of the 314 police and firefighter unions in Wisconsin, only four endorsed Scott Walker.

Prominent commentators on the Left and Right are amused by an outrageous assault on CBS reporter Lara Logan.

Tweeting feels like IM’ing but it’s more like blogging.

The media are wildly exaggerating the heckling at a gathering of conservatives.

Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?

Twenty-five years ago today, the American space program came crashing to Earth in a horrible accident.

The initial instant reaction to the President’s speech last night was largely positive, but does it really matter?

We won’t be able to solve our fiscal problems until the American people grow up. So far, there are no signs of that happening.

The American public still has a totally unrealistic view of what it will take to get the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order.

Freshman Members of Congress are threatening to block a vote to raise the debt ceiling that Congress will have to take by this Spring. They’d be irresponsible if they did so.

Sarah Palin’s reality show as as popular as the critically acclaimed drama everyone’s talking about. And that’s just half the story.

John Boehner’s whining about being called a “hostage taker” by President Obama is reminiscent of Newt Gingrich’s whining about being “snubbed” on Air Force One.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he isn’t running for President, but he’s sure acting like a guy who’s at least thinking about it.

According to a new poll, the Tea Party movement, which is largely now the base of the GOP, is not completely in step with the views of American voters as a whole.

The incoming freshman of the 112th Congress say that they won’t repeat the mistakes that Republicans made when they gained power sixteen years ago, but some of the advice they’re getting virtually guarantees it will happen if they aren’t careful.

Rasmussen polls were biased toward Republicans by 3 to 4 points. Rigged results? Or screening error?

Thanks to a combination of good intelligence and fast action, it looks like the U.S. and UK avoided a serious attack on airliners last week.

215,000 people attended the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” compared to 87,000 for “Restoring Honor.” Even if you believe the numbers, they don’t tell us much.

Did President Obama degrade his office by appearing on “The Daily Show”? Or is that notion a relic of a bygone era?

Remember that $400 tax cut President Obama gave you? Neither do 90 percent of Americans.

President Obama and the Democrats are charging the Chamber of Commerce of funneling foreign money into ads for Republicans. It’s a desperate move unlikely to work.

Despite early rumors that she would be fired when she proved not to be worth $16 million a year, Katie Couric has hung on as anchor at CBS. But her contract’s up in May and CNN seems to be the highest bidder. If not the only bidder.

Responding to the rant that got Rick Sanchez fired, Slate’s Brian Palmer investigates the question, “Do Jews Really Control the Media?” His short answer, “Maybe the movies, but not the news.”