Outside the Beltway

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

Bill O’Reilly makes a convincing argument for raising taxes on the wealthy.

Ivar Giaever, the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, has resigned from the American Physical Society over its declaration that “global warming is occurring” and that “the evidence is incontrovertible.”

Four American soldiers are now on the ground in Libya. Reports have them wearing boots.

The Sarah Palin bloom seems to be off the rose.

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.

Hurricane Irene has been much, much less severe than heralded.

Rick Perry’s rise in the polls can be traced to factors that threaten both Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann

Political journalists aren’t like you and me. Well, you, anyway.

While Sarah Palin continues to tease her supporters about a possible Presidential run, the damage she could do to the GOP becomes even more apparent.

Her appeal is not her ideas, policies, or achievements but her personality and appeal to the red meat base.

Is she in or is she out? And does it matter?

President Obama is back on Martha’ Vineyard for a ten-day vacation. The usual suspects are upset.

Comparing Bachmann and Palin in regards to managing the media.

Sarah Palin’s paranoia about the media was on full display during her recent visit to Iowa.

More on Texas and jobs.

Does Ron Paul’s second place showing at Ames mean the media should take him seriously as a contender? No, it doesn’t.

Last night’s debate was definitely more combative than previous renditions.

Examining the impact of current events requires stepping back from them just a little bit.

The “super committee” created by the debt ceiling deal is already the subject of criticism, most of it unwarranted.

The problem at the moment is not the lack of a Democratic plan.

He’s not in the race (yet), but Rick Perry is already a top-tier 2012 candidate.

David Brooks is mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore.

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

It was a largely fruitless weekend in the debt negotiations.

The Casey Anthony trials lends evidence to support Jon Stewart’s basic hypothesis about the MSM.

The biggest news story of the past six weeks was something completely trivial.

The Stephen Colbert Super PAC that began as a satire has now been blessed by the real FEC. What exactly this means is not yet clear.