Outside the Beltway

Musing about his smarts.

Usually if a quote is too good to be true, it is.

Back in the late 90s, Newt wanted to execute marjiuana traffickers.

Trying to construct Gingrich’s c.v.

We won’t have Herman Cain to kick around anymore.

Another allegation of sexual wrongdoing for Herman Cain.

Newt Gingrich spoke some truth on immigration last night, and that might hurt him with Republican voters.

It’s hard to see how Newt Gingirch can remain a viable candidate given his past

The former pizza executive is a smart guy. But he’s not fit to run the country.

Have Republicans been co-opted by the Big Government they claim to hate?

Two candidates face a test tonight.

Another case of the law of unintended consequences.

It turns out there are some jobs immigrants will do, but Americans won’t

Is Herman Cain for real, or is this rise int he polls just another boomlet destined to fade away?

A major backer of Republican and Libertarian causes is under fire.

Dick Morris has a penchant for counter-intuitive analysis. And for being wildly wrong.

The execution of Troy Davis brings back to the forefront the reasons why the death penalty is inherently flawed.

A record 46 million Americans are living in poverty.

Both Virginia lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act have been dismissed by a Federal Appeals Court.

Democrats are fearing the President’s jobs plan will be underwhelming. Based on initial reports, it looks like their fears are well-placed.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.

Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

Florida’s new law requiring welfare recipients to pass drug tests seems to clearly violate the Fourth Amendment.

Many of the clergy in Alabama are not happy with the state’s new immigration law.

Do we have a new frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination?

The first poll in the wake of Michele Bachmann’s victory at Ames and Rick Perry’s entry into the race shows a brand new frontrunner

State-level job approval numbers seem to suggest that the President could have Electoral College worries in 2012.

John Boehner’s debt ceiling plan is being amended. And not in a good way.

Steven Metz muses, “Scholars argue that too much political mobilization can make democracies dysfunction. Is that where the US is today?”

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

It won’t go anywhere this year, but after 15 years someone is finally trying to repeal a bad law.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

Georgia Congressman Paul Broun has a radical suggestion: While we’re playing chicken with the nation’s debt, let’s cut $1.3 trillion from the debt ceiling!

The New York Times keeps digging up new facts about yesterday’s shocking reversal in the Dominque Strauss-Kahn case.

A homeowners association in Augusta, Georgia is coming under fire after denying Homes For Our Troops a permit to build a house for a paralyzed African-American veteran.

Remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the arrogant French aristocrat whose career was ended by a courageous chambermaid, shedding light on a corrupt social system? A funny thing happened on the way to the slammer.