Outside the Beltway

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.

Two new polls show that the public supports the budget deal, but has no idea what to do to solve our long term problems.

Donald Trump has been surging in polls of Republican voters recently, but that doesn’t mean much of anything.

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

Why in the hell are Federal taxpayers footing the bill for residential trash collection in DC?

Glenn Beck will leave his Fox News show in December.

The American people have no idea what’s really in the Federal Budget, which makes any discussion about what to cut virtually impossible.

The U.S. seems to be on the verge of changing war strategies in Libya, even as it becomes clear that these rebels aren’t necessarily our friends.

The President’s winter polling bounce is gone, and he’s looking vulnerable again.

The race for the 2012 Republican nomination is missing the one thing that GOP nomination battles have almost always had, a frontrunner.

They say anyone can grow up to be president. Michele Bachmann is apparently taking them at their word.

Another survey shows that Americans don’t know much about their own history, but does it really matter?

It looks like things are underway in Libya, with French President Nicholas Sarkozy confirming that French jets are already in the air above Libya.

The NPR vote was nothing more than political theatrics–and it violated a GOP campaign promise to boot.

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.

Fewer Americans are watching cable news networks, and that’s not surprising.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is beginning to more like a real candidate for President. She won’t win, but she will be entertaining.

The CNN Effect has given away to Twitter Standard Time.

Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake, which in turned spawned a tsunami.

Democrats won’t say if they consider Mitt Romney a threat, but they’re sure acting like they do.

Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.

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

The ongoing saga of piracy off the coast of Somali is about to get Americans’ attention again, as a yacht containing four U.S. citizens has been hijacked.

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

While earlier in the day the indications were that Mubarak was on his way out, Mubarak himself had different plans it would seem. The question becomes: now what?

The debate over Senator Rand Paul’s proposed $500 billion spending cut plan has focused almost exclusively on one issue, and one nation.