Outside the Beltway

Britain’s Prince William marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, giving her a ring of Welsh gold.

President Obama chided the media for paying too much attention to the birther issue, but his criticism was unwarranted.

President Obama’s long-form birth certificate is being released, the White House announced today.

Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

Donald Trump figures that, because he’s rich, he’s qualified to be president.

One of the Tea Party movement’s favorite Senators used the dreaded c-word.

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.