Outside the Beltway

The race will go on after Super Tuesday, but the outcome seems ineviable

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

A bill likely to become law in Virginia will require all women seeking abortions to undergo an invasive ultrasound examination.

Mitt Romney’s statements about the planned early draw down in Afghanistan make no sense whatsoever.

Republican candidates have reached out to Tim Tebow for an endorsement. Desperation?

Newt Gingrich last night declared that he would abolish the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Barack Obama now looks to the Rough Rider himself for inspiration. Can’t he find it himself?

Would Republicans really be crazy enough to nominate Herman Cain?

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

Are we placing far too much importance on how someone does in a two hour so-called “debate”?

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

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

Ben Bernanke didn’t offer many clues in his speech today, but one wonders if he really has any tricks left up his sleeve.

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

States are racing to put obstacles in front of voters in the name of fraud prevention.

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

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

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

Those who argue that tariff increases, and not slavery, were the key reason for secession have some basic problems with the historical sequence.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

Fed examiners made a bank take down a “Merry Christmas, God With Us” sign. Then the “system” kicked in.

Some Republican Senators-elect are imploring Harry Reid not to consider any treaties during the lame duck session.

At least one group of Tea Party activists seems to realize that their biggest mistake of the 2010 election cycle was backing candidates like Christine O’Donnell who turned out to be their own worst enemies.

As impressive as Republican gains in this week’s elections were at the national level, they were even more so in state legislative races. Which means Republicans are in position to consolidate and expand upon their recent gains.

The Federal Reserve is injecting $ 600,000,000,000 into the economy, primarily in the hope that it will boost stock prices and, in turn, the economy. It might work, but if it doesn’t the consequences could be severe.

Are we facing a Sharia take-over?

The Supreme Court yesterday heard oral argument in a case where being on the right side means supporting some vile people, but that’s what the First Amendment is all about.

A new study suggests that laws banning texting while driving don’t actually have any impact on accident rates.

Why do innocent people confess to crimes they didn’t commit, and what should we do about it ?