Outside the Beltway

This morning, the Justices pondered the fate of the PPACA if they strike down the individual mandate.

Starting tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court dives into the most significant case that has been before it in many years.

Another Federal Court rules in favor of marriage equality, and the biggest news is how unsurprising the outcome of the case is.

The NYT has an interesting piece on the ongoing limted v. big governemnt debate.

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

Requiring a religious institution to comply with civilian laws is not a violation of religious liberty.

Rick Santorum has some extreme views on social welfare. Of course, he isn’t alone.

A Democrat sees doom and gloom as far as the eye can see.

The Supreme Court will decide on the Constitutionality of the President’s health care law by June 2012.

Less than a year ago, Herman Cain was denouncing a tax plan that is remarkably similar to the one he now advocates.

Rick Perry’s tax plan isn’t very impressive.

Not surprisingly, the “Super Committee” to deal with the deficit isn’t making much progress.

House Energy and Commerce Committee “is investigating Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, requesting lots of docs.”

The second half of the President’s political strategy is in place. Don’t mistake it for a serious legislative effort.

As more details roll in on President Obama’s millionaire tax hike, it’s looking like it was drawn up by J. Wellington Wimpy: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

President Obama is proposing a special tax rate for millionaires.

Contrary to what Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman argue today, compassion does not require one to support government social welfare programs.

Not surprisingly, there was very little about the President’s jobs speech to write home about.

Rubio may be wowing conservatives audience, but is his rhetoric grounded in reality?

The Twitterverse and the Democratic National Committee are having a field day with Mitt Romney’s declaration that “Corporations are people, my friend.”

The problem with the ever popular complaint about kickin’ the can down the road.

President Obama and Congressional Republicans have the outline of a deal to raise the debt limit past the 2012 elections.

John Boehner and Harry Reid introduced their debt plans. Now, where do we go from here?

It wasn’t a good day for the debt ceiling negotiations.

Workers picketing a Chicago Hyatt hotel yesterday got an unpleasant surprise: Heat lamps.

Freshman GOP Representative Allen West is a loose cannon and unfit for office.

The Gang of Six is back together. And they have a plan.

The idea that the GOP can block a debt ceiling vote and benefit politically is, quite simply, absurd.

Some things are worth repeating.

The participants in the debt negotiations are being led by constituencies that have little interest in compromise.

Byron York had some not unreasonable questions for Susan Feinberg, the woman who confronted Paul Ryan over $350 wine he consumed at a Capitol Hill restaurant. She won’t answer.

It’s still politics as usual in Washington.

There’s apparently a new proposal on the table at the debt negotiations, and it looks very interesting.

What exactly is the GOP trying to accomplish in the debt ceiling negotiations?

A setback for Planned Parenthood opponents.

We might be looking at a potential fiscal crisis.

A system designed to protect the innocent has instead become a menagerie to imprison them. A legal code designed to proscribe specific behavior has instead become a vast, vague, and unpredictable invitation to selective enforcement.

The main issue, above all else, is taxes.

We need to stop talking as if the Medicare debate is a question of the Ryan Plan v. the Status Quo.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

You don’t often see a candidate for President tell Iowans that he wants to eliminate ethanol subsidies, but Tim Pawlenty did.