Outside the Beltway

Last night’s primaries continued the anti-establishment narrative we’ve seen so far this year, and put both of the statewide offices in Florida in play.

Not surprisingly, Radical Islamists are taking notice of the tone of debate in the United States over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.”

Glenn Greenwald argues that the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate is about more than just a “mosque” near Ground Zero. He’s right, but that also means the debate is likely to get uglier.

America’s obsession over the fate of the Burlington Coat Factory in Lower Manhattan, and a general rise in anti-Islamic rhetoric, plays right into the hands of the people that are actually our enemies.

It’s beginning to look like initial reports that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill had been “cleaned up” may not be true after all.

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

Democrats are currently engaged in a circular firing squad.

The results of last night’s Colorado Senate primaries should be causing Democrats to worry.

For-profit universities are defrauding their students. Indeed, it’s their business model.

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

Two Florida teens have been arrested for being in possession of naked pictures of themselves.

November’s elections will set modern records for most Senate seats and governorships on the ballot.

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker today declared California’s Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional, thus opening the latest front in the gay marriage wars.

How does the Electoral College influence policy and campaigning?

A Federal District Court Judge has allowed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s health care reform law filed by the Commonwealth of Virginia to proceed.

A growing number of conservatives are in dismay about the state of their movement.

The first in a multi-part series on the Electoral College.

The Electoral College is the worst way to elect a President, except for all the others.

Crist’s gamble continues to appear to have been a good one.

Marco Rubio doesn’t want to see the proliferation of SB1070s to other states.

Massachusetts will become the latest state to join the National Popular Vote movement, a compact wherein states throw their Electoral College votes to the nationwide winner once enough states agree to ensure that outcome.

The Lt. Governor of Tennessee suggested recently that religious freedom possibly shouldn’t apply to Muslims, but he’s only part of the problem.

Sarah Palin tweeted, and took the wrong side in a story that doesn’t even deserve to be a controversy.

Vice-President Biden glances into the future and sees a relatively good year for Democrats. Is he right ?

Some Republicans in Congress are worried they won’t be able to control the future Congressmen and Senators that the Tea Party might be sending to Washington.

The Washington DC area has the nation’s highest incomes.

A new poll shows that Americans have some odd ideas about the Constitution, and how to change it.

Did LeBron James pick Miami because of income taxes ? Probably not.

Republicans are looking at making some major, and interesting, changes to the primary calendar for 2012.

A lot of Americans don’t know that the US gained its independence from Great Britain. How can this be? Is it a liberal conspiracy?

Not surprisingly, American’s partisan views on the Supreme Court are pretty much wrong.

Markos Moulitsas gets a lesson in caveat emptor from his former pollster.

A group of oceanographers suggest that the oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion will leave the Gulf in a few months. What happens then?

Americans on both sides of the aisle throw around words like “tyranny” and “fascism” about our system. But there are constant small reminders we are under the rule of law.

Should Obama waive restrictions on international shipping, as Bush did during Katrina? It’s more complicated than you may think.

The Florida Senate race has taken a turn that few people expected thanks to the political impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.