Outside the Beltway

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

Do people really understand the taxes we pay?

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

The latest conservative meme seems to be that the White House hates Jesus and the Easter Bunny.

President Obama’s grand coalition against Libya is a lot less than meets the eye.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

Philippa Thomas has a fascinating take on how she broke the news of (now former) State Department P.J. Crowley’s condemnation of the Obama administration’s treatment of Bradley Manning.

It’s springtime in Washington, when the buds start to grow on the Japanese Cherry trees, and political hacks come out of their holes to criticize the President for golfing.

It’s understandable that the President feels defensive about gas prices, but that’s no excuse for trying to sell the public a bill of goods.

A day after apologizing for an odd comment about the President’s upbringing, Mike Huckabee now feeds into the conservative myth that Barack Obama isn’t a real American.

The uprisings in the Arab world have led some to suggest that the Middle East isn’t “ready” to be free. They’re wrong.

Calls are growing for outside intervention in Libya but it’s unclear what can, or should, be done.

Republicans won the right to govern Wisconsin. What does that mean for Democrats?

Prominent commentators on the Left and Right are amused by an outrageous assault on CBS reporter Lara Logan.

Rick Santorum is upset that a Google search for his name produces a string of unflattering material. You should be, too.

Comedienne Joan Rivers tells Howard Stern why she ditched a joke calling Michelle Obama “Backie O.”

Some thoughts on why certain topics get blogged.

Didn’t we just talk about this?

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

It only seems fair to take an entire tweet, lengthy though it may be, into account when reacting.

Mike Huckabee is the latest Republican to tack up the banner against the so-called “elites.”

Last night’s Delaware Senate debate was entertaining, but it’s unlikely to move the polls very much.

Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.

A new Gallup poll shows President Obama beating Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical 2012 Democratic nomination fight. Nobody should be surprised by that.

The perfect storm of a bad economy and a new, massive, unpopular government entitlement program may be combing to cause serious damage to Democrats in November.

If Republicans regain control of Congress, you could be seeing a lot of scenes like this on your television for the next two years.

The Obama’s are vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard again this year so, of course, it’s time for people to say stupid things about Presidential leisure activities again.

The webmaster of a local Republican chapter linked a YouTube video that implies Democratic women are ugly.

Twenty percent of Americans still believe that Barack Obama is Muslim. Not only is it wrong, it says something rather disturbing about our country.

Jenny, the hottie who quit her job in style using a dry erase board and became an Internet sensation, is actually an actress named Elyse Porterfield.

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

Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.

Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

Andrew Sullivan is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.

San Francisco’s ban on sugary drinks is the latest example of nanny state reductio creep.

Not surprisingly, American’s partisan views on the Supreme Court are pretty much wrong.

General Stanley McChrystal is opening his mouth again and, this time, it could cost him his job.