Outside the Beltway

Though still just a Tropical Storm, Isaac has the potential to be as dangerous as Hurricane Katrina.

Tropical Storm Isaac won’t be as much of a danger to Tampa as feared, but it’s still having an impact. That’s all because of bad scheduling ideas.

A very suspicious “suicide” in police custody.

In my adult memory, the American South was a one-party Democratic region for all but presidential elections. Aside from minority set-aside districts, the reversal is near complete.

Andrew Hacker argues that, while quantitative skills are “critical for informed citizenship and personal finance,” making kids master algebra to graduate high school has disastrous consequences.

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

Romney says “We’re the party of people who want to get rich.”

Mitt Romney’s intransigence over releasing more tax returns is politically stupid.

As gas prices fall, the politics of fuel prices are changing.

How dominant is the Southeastern Conference? It’s won more titles in the big sports since 2005 than all other conferences combined.

There is no evidence that the Capital Punishment works.

Innocent people have gone to jail, and some of them are still sitting there.

The results of Louisiana’s primary mean a lot less than the pundits will tell you they do.

Like most endorsements, Jeb Bush’s endorsement of Mitt Romney is unlikely to have a major impact on the race.

Dear Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi: The plural of anecdote is not data.

It looks like we’ll have Newt Gingrich to kick around for awhile.

Last night’s results ensure the race will continue to the convention.

Rick Santorum won the night, but Mitt Romney continues to win the delegate hunt.

Republicans continue to harp on the fact that the President uses a TelePrompter.

Fox News’ Carl Cameron is reporting on a secret plot by the two most embarrassing candidates from the 2012 Republican field to team up in order to win an incredibly unlikely brokered convention.

Rush Limbaugh may be a jerk, but he has a right to be a jerk.

The race will go on after Super Tuesday, but the outcome seems ineviable

Virginia has become the latest battleground for advocates of laws that define life as being at conception.

Mitt Romney won big last night, Newt Gingrich was Newt Gingrich, and the race is coming to the beginning of the end.

A Mississippi judge has stayed a slew of pardons issued by Haley Barbour on his way out the door.

Did you know there was another GOP debate last night? Well, you didn’t miss much.

The failure of the personhood amendment should tell us at least three key things.

Mississippi voters easily defeated an amendment to the state constitution that declared life begins at conception.

Are America’s political parties become irrelevant?

The story of Perry’s hunting lodge probably doesn’t tell us that much about Perry, but it is still telling.

Mitt Romney is still being dogged by charges of changed positions. Now, he’s trying to spin that as a good thing.

Should it matter if a teacher has an accent?

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

A record 46 million Americans are living in poverty.

There was a somewhat disturbing moment during last night’s GOP Debate.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.