Outside the Beltway

The coverage of Egypt shows an over-reliance on pundits and an under-reliance on actual experts.

The initial instant reaction to the President’s speech last night was largely positive, but does it really matter?

Didn’t we just talk about this?

Despite a bad week and a half, there are still signs that Sarah Palin is at least looking at a run for the White House in 2012. Which may be why some Republicans seem to be getting worried about her.

Sarah Palin was “interviewed” by Sean Hannity last night. I doubt she helped herself.

The American media and Sarah Palin have developed an odd symbiotic relationship, and it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

Both Bill Kristol and Brit Hume had interesting observations about Palin’s “blood libel” speech today on FNS.

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

The shooting of Representative Giffords is tragic and undeniably political. Still, we need to be cautious about accusations and speculation.

A tragedy this afternoon in Tuscon

The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology.

House Republicans want to do away with the increasing number of “czars” in the White House.

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.

The next round in the health care reform wars is about to start.

Three months after the allegations were first made. the FEC has opened a criminal investigation of Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell

Contrary to current conservative talking points, Net Neutrality is not a nefarious government scheme to takeover the Internet, but is aimed to address a real problem. Like most ideas that involve the government, though, it doesn’t really address the real source of the problem; not enough freedom

New polling shows that Mitt Romney is well behind the Fox News candidates for 2012.

There’s been much talk recently about treason charges in the Wikileaks case, an most of it has been entirely wrong.

Internal memos reveal that Fox News spins the news in ways that favor conservative Republicans. Is that really news?

Did Obama’s tax cut deal demolish the Republican charge that he’s a radical? Not hardly.

So, if Hispanics formed a political party, what do you think it should be called?

The Republican Party is united on the issues in a way it hasn’t been in a long time, but personalities threaten to tear the fragile coalition apart.