Outside the Beltway

Once again, Senate Democrats are talking about filibuster reform, but will they actually follow through?

In a silly quadrennial tradition, the residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire voted at midnight. It was a tie.

Barack Obama attended Martha Raddatz’ wedding. Now, she’s moderating the VP debate. Conspiracy!

Good journalism? Or, bad ethics?

The Romney campaign seems to be responding to criticism by pretending it hears no evil.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

An old woman with no painting skills was allowed to restore an old painting. Oddly, it didn’t turn out very well.

There’s a wee bit more to the “Progressive defended my sister’s killer” story that went viral yesterday.

The United States Congress can still work together to pander before election season.

Publishing unsubstantiated rumor is not journalism.

The President’s former Budget Director joins the ranks of those calling for Postal privatization.

As gas prices fall, the politics of fuel prices are changing.

When I saw the headline “Black Mormons Face Tough Election Choice Between Romney And Obama,” I naturally presumed it would lead to a parody news piece in The Onion.

Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui.

The phrase “American Taliban” is usually off the mark. However, sometimes it is closer to the mark than we might like.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

The Founders would never have thought to do more than count people in the Census!

Based on the postmortems, it certainly seems like the Romney campaign threw Richard Grenell under the bus.

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Time to prepare yourself for the incoming deluge of polling.

Picking the wrong target.

The Washington Post prematurely posted that Rick Santorum was dropping out of the race on its news wire and Bloomberg made the story viral while the Post was verifying its accuracy.

We won’t have Rick Santorum to kick around anymore.

An unsurprising end to a ridiculous lawsuit.

Good Journalism?

Mitt Romney is likely to put considerable distance between himself and his opponents tomorrow.

There’s an entire industry that profits from exploiting political controversy and division. Why do we let them get away with it?

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

Apparently, people who work for the government are surfing the World Wide Web.

Cee Lo Green caused on New Year’s Eve by changing the lyrics of Imagine from “And no religion, too” to “And all religions true.”

New video plus a basic primer on Ron Paul’s newsletter situation.

Would Republicans really be crazy enough to nominate Herman Cain?

Even those sympathetic to the causes are frustrated with the squalor and other negative externalities of the protests.

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are, ironically, hurting small business owners and others in the 99 percent.

The signs are not good.

Texas Governor Rick Perry got lousy grades as an undergrad at Texas A&M. Does it matter?