Outside the Beltway

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

On paper, Jon Huntsman looks like a great General Election candidate. The problem is it seems impossible for him to win the GOP nomination.

Florida Today’s Jeff Parker offers this take on President Obama’s Afghanistan “drawdown,” which will culminate in getting American forces down to Bush era levels by the end of 2012.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

Mitt Romney told a group of unemployed Florida voters that he was unemployed, too! It’s being touted as a gaffe on Twitter but appears to be a joke.

It was a good day in Court for opponents of the Affordable Care Act.

Unemployment was high when Barack Obama took office and it’s gotten substantially higher. Does that mean he won’t get re-elected?

Another appellate panel heard arguments on the Constitutionality of the health care reform law this week.

Should we worry about the deficit when funding “disaster relief”? Should we be funding “disaster relief” at all?

The 4th Circuit has asked for supplemental briefs on an issue that could put a quick end to the lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act.

You don’t often see a candidate for President tell Iowans that he wants to eliminate ethanol subsidies, but Tim Pawlenty did.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

When one realizes that Trump is basically a brand, rather than anything else, his PR foray into politics makes more sense.

President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after Osama bin Laden was killed two weeks ago. They’ve already settled back to where they were

We won’t have Mike Huckabee to kick around in 2012.

Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.

There are signs that the Ryan Plan isn’t playing well with the public.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

The challenges to the Affordable Care Act will remain in the Courts of Appeals for now, but they’re still on a pretty fast track.

Terry Jones may sue the City of Dearborn for its prior restraint actions against him. And he should.

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.

What is Donald Trump up to? Only he seems to know for sure.

The duty to defend “hateful, extremely disrespectful, and enormously intolerant” expression.

“She asked for it” is no longer an acceptable argument in rape cases. So, why is a preacher in Florida burning a book being condemned by American political and military leaders for a days-long murder spree in Afghanistan?

The only people responsible for the murders in Afghanistan are the people who committed them, but the demagogues like Terry Jones deserve condemnation as well.

A discussion on Terry Jones’ moral culpability for the crazed reaction in Afghanistan to his Koran burning stunt.