Outside the Beltway

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

Once again, Republicans are attacking someone for doing a job the Bill of Rights itself makes necessary and important.

An opportunist ruins a good joke and hijacks an important discussion.

Mitt Romney’s forces won a rules change that will allow future nominees to have more say over their conventions. While this strikes me as a no-brainer, some conservative activists are up in arms.

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.

Picking the wrong target.

The odds of a come back by the Texas Governor do not look good.

Romney consolidated his position as the presumptive nominee, Perry continued his disintegration, Cain discovered what it was like to be a serious candidate, and Bachmann doubled down on crazy.

The Obama campaign’s new “Attackwatch” site is the latest Outrage Of The Day

Rick Perry’s vision of capitalism doesn’t exactly comply with what Adam Smith had in mind.

Michelle Malkin is unhappy about being part of joke on Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.

Marizela Perez, Michelle Malkin’s cousin, remains missing. She was last seen in Seattle’s University District Saturday afternoon.

Factions on the right and left continue to charge one another with trying to politicize the Tucson murders. They’re now nitpicking the memorial service.

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.

Contrary to current conservative talking points, Net Neutrality is not a nefarious government scheme to takeover the Internet, but is aimed to address a real problem. Like most ideas that involve the government, though, it doesn’t really address the real source of the problem; not enough freedom

The 9th Circuit has struck down an Arizona law requiring people to show proof of citizenship to vote. No, this doesn’t open the floodgates to illegal alien voting.

Apparently Juan Williams is really, really, really important.

NPR has fired Juan Williams over controversial comments about Muslims.

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party aren’t as clueless as their detractors think.

Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally raises, yet again, the tiresome fight over crowd estimates and their political significance.

President Obama will be giving an address to schoolkids again this year. Stay tuned for the cries of “indoctrination !”