Outside the Beltway

Justice Alito said recently he won’t be attending the next State of the Union address. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Are we facing a Sharia take-over?

New Jersey’s governor has killed a vital infrastructure project because of huge cost overruns. It’s penny wise and pound foolish.

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

Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

The media is now starting to look at it’s own role in the whole Koran burning story, but the truth is that there really wasn’t any way they could’ve ignored the story.

A new poll indicates that there are some disturbing motivations that seem to be associated with opposition to the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.”

How long will we stop annual commemorations on the anniversary of that horrible day?

Capitalizing on the buzz from his weekend rally, talk host Glenn Beck launched a new online magazine called The Blaze overnight.

The controversial Muslim center near Ground Zero may get public financing.

Americans who earn a lot of money disproportionately live in a tiny number of states and are married to other high-earners.

House Minority John Boehner is getting a lot of attention for calling for mass firings at the White House. The real news, though, is that his speech is shifting the focus of the political conversation back to the economy. Which is just what the GOP needs.

Not surprisingly, Radical Islamists are taking notice of the tone of debate in the United States over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.”

Glenn Greenwald argues that the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate is about more than just a “mosque” near Ground Zero. He’s right, but that also means the debate is likely to get uglier.

Rick Lazio is running for Governor of New York and he’s found an issue in the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” but it doesn’t seem to be helping him in the polls.

America’s obsession over the fate of the Burlington Coat Factory in Lower Manhattan, and a general rise in anti-Islamic rhetoric, plays right into the hands of the people that are actually our enemies.

Why are people’s views about Islam so screwed up ? Mostly because the only things they know about it tend to be the worst possible aspects of all.

A small slice of what people at the epicenter of the Park51 controversy have to say.

The Associated Press tells its reports to stop using the phrase “Ground Zero Mosque.” That’s a good thing.

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

Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.

Given public opinion on the proposed Islamic community center that is currently cominating the news, we would expect that opposition to the project would be strongest in Manhattan itself.

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

If it was called the “Burlington Coat Factory community center” would anyone care about Cordoba House?

President Obama waded into the “Ground Zero” mosque controversy at a Ramadan dinner last night.

The American Family Association has ramped up the nation’s anti-Muslim sentiment yet again.

The average federal government employee earns twice as much as the average private sector worker. An outrage? Not so much.

Greg Gutfeld claims to be working to build a gay bar next door to the controversial Cordoba House Muslim cultural center a few blocks from Ground Zero.

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

Some Democrats who support ending the Bush tax cuts for high earners want to exempt their own rich constituents.

The Lt. Governor of Tennessee suggested recently that religious freedom possibly shouldn’t apply to Muslims, but he’s only part of the problem.

Charles Rangel, who recently stepped aside as Chairman of House Ways And Means Committee, is facing ethics charges.

Sarah Palin tweeted, and took the wrong side in a story that doesn’t even deserve to be a controversy.

American businesses are sitting on a big pile of cash, and giving no indication that they have any intention of spending it any time soon.

The members of the Russian spy ring broken up last week by the FBI are headed back to Mother Russia.