Outside the Beltway

Rick Santorum’s inability to stay away from the culture wars may have been his undoing.

Once again, the punditocracy is bemoaning the rise of so-called “negative campaigning.”

Romney would rank among richest presidents ever

Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected a Republican law restricting the collective bargaining rights of public employees–and also rebuked the health insurance mandate central to ObamaCare.

Mitt Romney played it safe on a controversial issue again.

Barack Obama wrote two bestselling memoirs before becoming president. Both of them are hot items at Foggy Bottom.

Does “Occupy Wall Street” really represent the people they claim to be speaking for?

Now that he’s a top tier candidate, it’s hard to see how Herman Cain’s tax plan can withstand serious scrutiny.

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

It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people manage to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that their political philosophy has massive support.

Let’s see if there is evidence to support the assertion.

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.

A Presidential candidate’s medical condition is entirely relevant to their fitness for office.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

Lawyers in US court case spent ten pages of transcript arguing what a photocopier is. “Do you have machines where I can put in a paper document, push a button or two, and out will come copies of that paper document, also on paper?”

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

Players have taken control of the NBA from the owners. That’s bad for fans. But probably a good thing.

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

The Beast has released its The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, which I gather is supposed to be amusing rather than taken seriously.

Part two of the ongoing series blogging Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

Pedestrian fatalities are up. Experts blame Michelle Obama.

Rick Gosselin of the Dallas Morning News is a must-read for NFL fans, always offering sharp insights into the game garnered over decades of experience. But, like anyone else, he can develop silly theories from anecdotal evidence.

Don Surber imagines this edition of “Hardball.”

New Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott wore a swastika tie to media day. Given that there are good reasons to doubt Scott has Nazi sympathies or is a covert member of the Aryan Brotherhood, we’ll chalk this up to an honest mistake.

Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts President Obama’s re-election. Historically, that’s the safe bet.

House Minority John Boehner is getting a lot of attention for calling for mass firings at the White House. The real news, though, is that his speech is shifting the focus of the political conversation back to the economy. Which is just what the GOP needs.

Roger Clemens is probably regretting today the decision to testify before a Congressional committee about steroids back in 2008.

Starting in November, we’ll get a look inside the mind of one of America’s most fascinating writers.

Did LeBron James pick Miami because of income taxes ? Probably not.

Cleveland Cavaliers owner reacted to his star player’s departure with a scathing open letter. Was it fair?

Will LeBron James’s departure push upset Ohioans to the right ?

Is it time to elect a President that doesn’t have that “lean and hungry look” ?