Outside the Beltway

Democrats and Independents are losing their enthusiasm. But some perspective is needed.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

A new poll shows that most Americans want Republicans want to move on from their failed effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.

Emil Henry makes “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”

The GOP seems to be shifting strategy on the Affordable Care Act.

Is the now-familiar refrain that the individual mandate was originally a conservative idea really true?

The Solicitor General was unprepared to answer the most predictable question on the ObamaCare insurance mandate.

The Federal Government has filed its response to Virginia’s request for an expedited review of Virginia v. Sebelius, and they’ve got an compelling argument against rushing things.

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell says he won’t comply with any of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but his decision seems to rest of precarious legal ground.

Greg Mankiw has a plan for cutting the deficit.

Time for midterms.

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

Is “ObamaCare” a slur or a breezy and descriptive nickname?

Several smart center-left commentators argue that President Obama is not triangulating. At least one argues there’s no such thing.

The US has always outspent our G7 brethren on healthcare but the divergence has skyrocketed over the last three decades.

Virginia Senator Jim Webb is the last of a dying breed of Democrats, but his party may need him if it wants to remain competitive anywhere outside of a Blue State.

The British press takes a look at America’s Midterm Elections.

Dan Coates has an ad that makes a claim that should make your head explode.

Republicans are promising two years of gridlock and obstructionism if they take control of Congress, but is that really what the people who are likely to vote for them next week really want?

A Federal Judge in Florida has handed a significant, albeit procedural, victory to the opponents of ObamaCare.

Newt Gingrich is drawing fire for his comments about that the President has a “Kenyan world view.” But, will Newt every pay the price for his inflammatory rhetoric ? Don’t count on it.

The White House seems to be getting annoyed at the criticism coming it’s way from the left.

Paul Krugman’s Medicare projections don’t line up with what the actuaries are telling us.

Democrats have opened up a 6 point lead in the Gallup generic ballot tracking poll, their first statistically significant lead of the cycle.

In Court filings the Obama Administration is arguing that the health insurance mandate is a tax, and if they’re right the legal challenges to ObamaCare are dead.