Outside the Beltway

A look back at two decades of blogging.

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

Not.

It is foolish to think that we ever escape politics.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

A Fox News host has debunked the Uranium One conspiracy theory being pushed by his own network.

Donald Trump’s entire modus operandi involves pushing divisive cultural hot buttons.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

Answering a question that gets a lot.

Donald Trump displays some appalling ignorance about an important part of America’s military, but his supporters are unlikely to care.

Thinking about that the state, law, violence, and the Garner incident (and contributing to the tl;dr phenomenon).

Will the GOP learn the right lessons from the just-concluded showdown? That remains to be seen.

Marco Rubio has suffered a reversal of fortune among Republicans thanks to his role in the immigration reform debate.

Most of the early reaction on the right consider’s the selection of Paul Ryan a smart move on Mitt Romney’s part, but you could also say it’s just risky.

In an ideal world, today’s Recall Election in Wisconsin would not even be legally possible.

All of a sudden, people are talking about Mike Huckabee as a potential Romney running mate.

NRO’s John Derbyshire went off on a bizarre, racist, rant yesterday.

Mitt Romney stumbled a bit during his victory tour this morning.

Ron Paul is rising in Iowa, which means he will soon face the scrutiny he’s avoided so far.

The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee ends with the Defendant being acquitted on all but one charge, and shows us why the entire process is little more than a show trial.

Jonah Goldberg has written a bad column. In this case, an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune headlined “Why is Assange still alive?”

Jonah Goldberg observes, “It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building; four years to erect the Golden Gate Bridge. The Pentagon took two years; the Alaska Highway just nine months. These days it takes longer to build an overpass.”

If the response to Cordoba House isn’t basically being anti-Muslim, what is it?