Outside the Beltway

No, Ron Paul is not a viable candidate for president.

Ohio State researchers: ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs.

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

An attempt at explaining where I am coming from on in the health care discussion.

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.

The GOP seems to be losing the public relations battle over deficit reduction.

Contempt for Congress is an old American tradition. Unfortunately.

According to a new poll, the American public still isn’t sold on the idea of cutting entitlements to cut the budget deficit.

In all honesty, much of what is coming out of the mouths of self-described conservatives is actually pretty darn radical.

President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.

Prepare to be underwhelmed by President Obama’s big deficit speech on Wednesday.

A government shutdown is not just a hypothetical in a debating contest. It will affect real people.

Paul Ryan unveiled an ambitious plan to cut the deficit today. The question is whether it will be the beginning of a debate, or an opportunity for Democratic demagoguery

Rather than fighting over the remnants of the FY 2011 budget, the GOP should make a deal and get ready for the bigger, and more important, battle ahead.

The American people have no idea what’s really in the Federal Budget, which makes any discussion about what to cut virtually impossible.

Another survey shows that Americans don’t know much about their own history, but does it really matter?

Judge Roger Vinson stayed his own ruling in the Florida ObamaCare lawsuit today and acted to speed up the appellate process, but not by much.

The most likely cuts in federal spending are likely to actually increase the deficit over time.

Neither side is covering themselves in glory in the battle over the Badger State budget.

You don’t have to be Admiral Akbar to suspect that the President’s refusal to deal with entitlements in his budget proposal is a trap for the GOP.

President Obama’s new budget involves nothing less than a thumb in the eye of anyone who hoped he would seriously address federal spending in his first term.

Ezra Klein dubs the Federal government “an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.”

No, the legislation does not in any way “suggest that some kind of rape that would be okay.”

The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” would remove the exception for non-forcible rape.

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

The current approach of the GOP to health care is not dissimilar to its approach to fiscal policy: not a lot of substance.

Jared Loughner could have possibly been stopped, and treated, if someone had said something.

Freshman Members of Congress are threatening to block a vote to raise the debt ceiling that Congress will have to take by this Spring. They’d be irresponsible if they did so.

Did we have a free market in health care prior to the passage of PPACA? No.

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year 2010.

There is a simple mathematical equation that explains why deficit reduction is so difficult.

Former Congressman Bob Barr argues that the right should not be so eager to rehabilitate George W. Bush. He’s right.

Ok, what strategy should Speaker Boehner pursue?