Outside the Beltway

With most of the public looking at the future and not seeing anything good, the President is suffering

Details of the President’s jobs plan are starting to leak out, and they’re not looking impressive.

Rick Perry may be much less than meets the eye.

Charles Krauthammer claims we are in the midst of a great debate. I am not so sure.

A new Gallup poll discovers something rather obvious, but there’s still a lesson for the GOP.

The Obama Administration has given up on the idea of trying the September 11th suspects in a civilian court. Considering how much that trial would have perverted the justice system, that’s a good thing.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley managed to alienate non-Christians within moments of taking office.

Diplomacy means having to be nice.

208 years ago today, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to The Danbury Baptist Association that has resonated through the years.

150 years ago today a group of men gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and made one of the gravest mistakes in American history. They should not be honored for it.

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is speaking positively about an Amendment that would drastically alter the relationship between the Federal Government and the states, and a method of ratifying it that could do serious damage to the Constitution as a whole.

A longish NYT postmortem titled “Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan” attributes Tuesday’s Republican victories to a January 2009 PowerPoint presentation. But structural factors were more important.

A new law allows Presidential candidates to set up transition offices while they’re still running for election, perhaps providing an opportunity for shortening the 2 1/2 month interregnum between Election Day and Inauguration Day.

Twenty percent of Americans still believe that Barack Obama is Muslim. Not only is it wrong, it says something rather disturbing about our country.

Colombia has sworn in a new president. And so begins the Santos era as the Uribe era heads for the history books.

A lot of Americans don’t know that the US gained its independence from Great Britain. How can this be? Is it a liberal conspiracy?

Despite repeated promises to the contrary, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will be remaining open indefinitely.