Outside the Beltway

New polling shows that Mitt Romney is well behind the Fox News candidates for 2012.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who may end up running for President in 2012, has reopened wounds that finally seemed like they were closed.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

Judicial activism doesn’t mean “reaching a decision I don’t like.”

Despite yesterday’s victory for opponents of the Affordable Care Act, the prospects in the Supreme Court are not good.

The hunters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

Wayne State has canceled the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award, citing its namesake’s controversial remarks.

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is speaking positively about an Amendment that would drastically alter the relationship between the Federal Government and the states, and a method of ratifying it that could do serious damage to the Constitution as a whole.

The odds that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will be repealed anytime in the near future are fairly close to zero thanks to the results of last Tuesday’s elections.

Isn’t that a strange goal? Shouldn’t college prepare students to have better lives later on?

Michigan Iraq War veteran gets NOT FUN vanity plate.

The Tea Party movement doesn’t seem to have a coherent view on foreign policy. Which means that a Tea Party victory will just mean more of the same Republican neo-conservatism.

Remember that $400 tax cut President Obama gave you? Neither do 90 percent of Americans.

Today’s college students are 40 percent less empathetic than they were thirty years ago. Is our political culture to blame?

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acknowledged in a newly released letter that the Wikileaks Afghan War document dump wasn’t as damaging as the Pentagon initially claimed. So what was the uproar all about?

A Federal Judge in Florida has handed a significant, albeit procedural, victory to the opponents of ObamaCare.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.

The new health care law’s individual mandate has survived it’s first legal challenge, and that’s not really a surprise.

A new projection of Congressional reapportionment shows a dramatic shift to traditionally Republican states in the South and Southwest.

While Republicans will likely take over some key governorships and state legislature after November’s midterms, America’s changing demographics will limit their ability to gerrymander safe districts.

An academic study reveals that police officers with college education are less violent than their peers. But the real story is how violent cops are, period.

Another set of bad economic numbers are out today, and one wonders when we’ll start getting the good news.

Washington Monthly ranks colleges “based on what they are doing for the country — on whether they’re improving social mobility, producing research, and promoting public service” rather than “wealth, exclusivity, and prestige.” Too bad they don’t hire that way.

General Motors, and Barack Obama, are betting the future on a car that may be nothing more than an electric lemon.

The Electoral College is the worst way to elect a President, except for all the others.

Can a public university expel a student for a religiously-motivated aversion to homosexuality?

800,000 gallons of oil have leaked from a pipeline into a creek that flows into the Kalamazoo River. BP is not involved.

Is the left to blame for unpaved roads?

The evidence that humans are irrational continues to mount. What does this mean for self-governance?

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

Despite repeated promises to the contrary, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will be remaining open indefinitely.