Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

Judge Roger Vinson stayed his own ruling in the Florida ObamaCare lawsuit today and acted to speed up the appellate process, but not by much.

Republicans begin to discover that defeating an incumbent President isn’t an easy task.

Judge Gladys Kessler upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, but she did so by essentially ruling that the Interstate Commerce Clause means whatever Congress wants it to mean.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

Florida has again scheduled its primary ahead of the deadlines set by the Republican and Democratic parties.

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell says he won’t comply with any of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but his decision seems to rest of precarious legal ground.

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

Polls matching President Obama against potential Republican contenders are entertaining but not informative.

Ron Paul is poised to win the CPAC Straw Poll. So what?

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.

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.

A second Federal District Court judge has declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.

Twenty-five years ago today, the American space program came crashing to Earth in a horrible accident.

Part two of the ongoing series blogging Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

Despite anecdotal evidence debunking global warming, 2010 was another record year for warm temperatures.

There was now snow on the ground in every single one of the 50 states — including Hawaii, which had snowfall on one of its volcanoes — except for Florida.

Freshman Members of Congress are threatening to block a vote to raise the debt ceiling that Congress will have to take by this Spring. They’d be irresponsible if they did so.

Cory Booker, Michael Bloomberg, and Chris Christie have been in the news this week due to the political fallout over their handling of the East Coast blizzard.

Mitt Romney’s poll numbers in Florida have shrunk. Perhaps he needs to be on cable TV a bit more often.

The seemingly sensible end-of-life counseling that was originally part of the Health Care Reform Bill is making a comeback.

Might Rudy do better in 2012 than he did in 2008?

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

Red States should gain 10 seats while Blue States should lose eight.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

The new health care law’s individual mandate was the subject of another bruising court battle yesterday, but the real question in the room was what, if any, are the limits on Congressional authority?

The most walkable cities in America are also the most successful.

Are the interests of a given state different than the interests of the people living in that state?

Another Federal Judge dismisses a Constitutional challenge to the health care reform law, and demonstrates just how unlikely it is that any of the lawsuits against the law will be successful.

Richard Quinn, a business professor at the University of Central Florida, got suspicious after a historically high grade distribution on the midterm for his capstone course and decided to scare his students.

Some Republican Senators-elect are imploring Harry Reid not to consider any treaties during the lame duck session.

A Florida courthouse illegally saved 35,000 images from security scanners.

The incoming freshman of the 112th Congress say that they won’t repeat the mistakes that Republicans made when they gained power sixteen years ago, but some of the advice they’re getting virtually guarantees it will happen if they aren’t careful.