Outside the Beltway

Georgia is in a border dispute with a neighboring state, but it’s not the Georgia you’re thinking of.

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum apparently talked about uniting to stop Romney during the 2012 Republican primaries.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

About 8.1 percent of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer and nearly 600,000 have “megacommutes” of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released from detention ahead of possible budget cuts.

Emory’s James Wagner sees the 3/5 Compromise as the price for achieving a more perfect union.

Calls for more American kids to pursue STEM careers ignores the hiring realities.

Plus some thoughts on prohibitionist policies (because sometimes a Quick Pick grows in the making).

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.

Two-term Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss will not seek re-election in 2014.

Congress is historically polarized.

Marco Rubio has some good immigration reform ideas. Will his fellow Republicans listen to him?

An attempt to declare the filibuster unconstitutional has ended in failure.

The bizarre dynamics of Virginia politics.

A rich child is 45 percent more likely to earn a four-year college degree than a poor one.

Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy last night, becoming the first “freshman” to do so.

In “Eyes on the Prize,” Chuck Culpepper looks at Saban’s first season as a head coach, with Toledo, way back in 1989-90. It seems that Nick Saban has been Nick Saban for a very long time.

More signs of cracks in the wall of GOP resistance to tax increases.

There’s been a bit of buzz of late about the fact that people in several states have filed petitions to secede from the Union. There shouldn’t be.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

Posting pictures of your ballot to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is a crime in some parts of America.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Today is the anniversary of a significant turning point in the Civil War.

Mitt Romney still has problems with Southern whites that could pose problems for him in states like Virginia and North Carolina.

A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.

Four idiot privates from Fort Stewart planned to take over the base, kill the president, and take over the government.

Mitt Romney’s forces won a rules change that will allow future nominees to have more say over their conventions. While this strikes me as a no-brainer, some conservative activists are up in arms.

The latest round of the Chick-fil-A controversy is perhaps the most absurd yet.

In my adult memory, the American South was a one-party Democratic region for all but presidential elections. Aside from minority set-aside districts, the reversal is near complete.

Donald Perry, the head of public relations for Chick-fil-A, has died of a heart attack in the midst of the national controversy surrounding the chain’s stance of gay marriage.

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

Looking back on the GOP nomination fight, it’s rather obvious that the media overplayed the idea that there was ever a real race going on.