Outside the Beltway

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

Wherein a National Review piece leads me to think I am the OTB alpha blogger.

Congress and the American people have a choice to make between two not very palatable options.

Maybe the real problem this year isn’t that the campaign is unduly nasty, but that it’s incredibly petty.

National Republicans aren’t at all thrilled with Todd Akin right now.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

The weird tale of Thad McCotter’s nominating petitions just got a heck of a lot weirder.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

A victory for the proponents of Voter ID Laws in Pennsylvania.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

Mitt Romney has effectively rebooted his campaign by picking Paul Ryan, but he’s also handed the President a powerful weapon.

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

In my adult memory, the American South was a one-party Democratic region for all but presidential elections. Aside from minority set-aside districts, the reversal is near complete.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

The Obama campaign is challenging an Ohio law that gives members of the military three extra days to vote. They have a very persuasive argument.

There are still three months or so go. The race is incredibly tight. And, voters are starting to really dislike both candidates.

It would be nice if people who make authoritative decisions had some idea what they are talking about.

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

Get ready for the battle over the Bush Tax Cuts to start up yet again.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

The number of Pennsylvania voters without required photo IDs exceeds Obama’s 2008 margin of victory.

The GOP’s arguments about the impact of ObamaCare on Medicare are dishonest and hypocritical.

However, he and his party have hardly taken over.

Who benefits from the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare ruling?

Chief Justice Roberts: “Although the breadth of Congress’s power to tax is greater than its power to regulate commerce, the taxing power does not give Congress the same degree of control over individual behavior.”

Thanks to a surprising decision by Chief Justice Roberts, the Affordable Care Act has survived the Constitutional challenges against it.

Three swing state poll results should be raising some real concerns among Team Romney today.

An unsurprising decision from the Supreme Court.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

Absent something extraordinary, it’s unlikely that the GOP will lose control of the House.

Gas prices are falling nationwide but that’s mostly because the economy kind of stinks.

The Veepstakes doesn’t matter nearly as much as the media tells you it does.