Outside the Beltway

Recent debates over the economic and fiscal impact of the Bush tax cuts indicate that Republicans still haven’t learned the lessons of the Bush years.

Affluent, educated people in the DC policy community hold different views than the larger American public.

Most academic journal articles are unreadable dreck. So, why are we demanding that more of them be produced?

When it comes to opinions about Sarah Palin, there is a striking difference between Republicans and Americans in general.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the CPI declined 0.1% last month. This makes for the third straight month that the CPI has declined. Is there reason to think that there is widespread deflation in the economy?

Pakistan is the world-wide leader in internet porn searches. And they have some strange tastes over there.

Remember all those suddenly accelerating Toyotas ? Now, we’re learning the rest of the story.

Since 9/11 there has been a steady trickle of stories about jihadists hooking up with Latin American drug cartels and the like. Here is a guide of story points that can help you identify when such a story is almost certainly bogus.

Those with million dollar plus mortgages are defaulting at almost twice the rate on those smaller loans. Are the rich more ruthless?

Arizona has been experiencing a massive increase in violent crime of late, right?

A picture is more misleading than a thousand words.

Teaching college is a lot more work than outsiders think — although probably not as much work as professors think.

Parenting is hard work and kids are a giant pain. Is it worth it?

The top 100 sites on the Internet get more than the next 900 combined.

Two widely-hyped reports have Wall Street firms donating less money to Democrats as payback for financial reform efforts. But a closer look reveals no such thing.

There are a whole lot of reasons to be concerned about the economy.

So much for the Obama Administration’s “Summer of Recovery.”

The Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas may have been influenced by questionable poll results from Research 2000.

Honest pollsters should deposit their raw data with the Roper Center to improve transparency.

Markos Moulitsas gets a lesson in caveat emptor from his former pollster.

Is the blog bubble bursting? Only if you’re innumerate.

The real estate market is returning to normal after being artificially stimulated by a tax credit.

President Obama continues to suffer politically as a result of the oil spill crisis.