Outside the Beltway

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

Scott Walker’s attempt to crush the Wisconsin public employee unions may be the first wave in a fight to elect Republican governors in 2012.

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was a Tea Party darling when he picked up Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat last year, but he’s not embracing the movement as he prepares to run for re-election next year.

The drive to cut taxes is at the heart of the budget mess.

The American right has become infected with the notion that Barack Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil. That won’t be healthy in the long run.

It’s time to end the ability of public sector labor unions to hold taxpayers hostage.

A commenter asks, “Why does Wisconsin have a quorum rule if not for situations like this?”

Republicans won the right to govern Wisconsin. What does that mean for Democrats?

In the Middle East, protesters are marching for democracy. In the Midwest, they’re protesting against it.

In a new Gallup poll, Americans rank Ronald Reagan as America’s Greatest President.

You don’t have to be Admiral Akbar to suspect that the President’s refusal to deal with entitlements in his budget proposal is a trap for the GOP.

A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

Newt Gingrich is very popular among young conservatives. But two ugly divorces will keep him from being a contender for the presidency.

House Democrats are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any litigation regarding the Affordable Care Act. It’s a phony argument, but that’s because it has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with legal ethics.

Four Senators who just happen to be up for re-election next year are silently looking for alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.

Rep. Jane Harman is leaving Congress to become president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

TSA screeners will now have the right to join a union. Or at least a union that can’t actually negotiate much of anything.

While most Americans consider themselves “conservatives,” some conservatives exclude most Americans from the definition.

Virginia will petition the Supreme Court to bypass the normal appellate process and hear the appeal of its lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act early.

No, the legislation does not in any way “suggest that some kind of rape that would be okay.”