Outside the Beltway

“It takes money to kill bad guys.”

Shutdown follies are not victimless.

A majority describe the morality and ethics of their fellow citizens as “bad.”

They have a right to do anything we can’t stop them from doing.

Just more evidence of how our institutions help shape our parties.

Usually president care what the public thinks, especially at times of major military action. Not this time.

Apathy all the way down.

USA! USA! USA!

The evidence is thin.

The libs are so owned.

Enough is never enough.

The case has major implications beyond the taxation issue.

Michelle Obama thinks so.

Sad and strange circumstances have forced the Democratic party to become the conservative party now. It’s important to remind ourselves of what is good in our lives and what is worth defending. 

The sitting Vice President isn’t getting blamed for the economy.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court is gone at 93.

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

Democrats and Independents are losing their enthusiasm. But some perspective is needed.

Bill Clinton walks back his comments about extending the Bush Tax Cuts in the most unbelievable manner possible.

When John McCain declared that Sarah Palin could beat President Obama, it was easy to dismiss. But when the architect of the Democratic strategy in 2008, says the same thing, you have to listen.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

While Gerrymandering Congressional districts to benefit incumbents and the dominant party in the state legislature is an old game, they play it with especial intensity in Illinois.

The main issue, above all else, is taxes.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

Across the country, Republicans are pushing laws that will make voting harder.

Dan Balz titles today’s column “Romney bets his candidacy on the economy.” My reaction upon seeing that was, that’s a pretty safe bet.

A majority of Americans think homosexuals account for at least a fifth of the population.

As Congress left town for the long weekend, the Senate Minority Leader threw a grenade into the budget negotiations.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants a full debate on the PATRIOT Act. What’s Congress so afraid of?

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

Voters in New York State may help move the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

The bungled politics of the Ryan plan.

Some think that 2012 will be like 1992. However, that analogy is problematic.

Mitch Daniels, the candidate of George Will and a host of mainstream Republicans hoping for something better in 2012, has announced he will not be running for president in 2012.

With the customary hand-wringing over the low quality of the presidential field well underway, the corollary pining for other candidates to join the race is starting.

It has now been 60 days since American involvement in Libya commenced. Congress has failed to act, and that’s their fault.

We’ve reached a turning point in the debate over same-sex marriage.

Part of a speech that Mitch Daniels made in 2009 is setting off a firestorm among some conservative bloggers.

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.