Outside the Beltway

Did the Founding Fathers make it too hard to amend the Constitution? No, they didn’t.

Mitt Romney continues to keep Donald Trump close. It makes no sense, but it isn’t likely to matter in the end.

For the first time in 68 years, neither major party candidate for President has served in the military. Does this matter?

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

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

Mitt Romney gained some ground in Swing State polling, but that just makes clear how narrow his path to 270 Electoral Votes actually is.

The GOP has a serious problem with the Latino vote, and it may too late to fix it.

The margin between Barack Obama and Mitt Romeny is razor-thin, and it’s likely to stay that way for quite some time.

Jennifer Rubin accuses Colin Powell of political opportunism for hedging on whether to renew his endorsement of Barack Obama.

A North Carolina teacher screamed and cursed at students for criticizing President Obama.

Yesterday, Cory Booker committed the rookie mistake of saying what was on his mind.

Republican politicians have largely avoided the topic of same-sex marriage since President Obama’s announcement. Why?

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

A pro-Republican SuperPAC may be bringing the Jeremiah Wright story back. That would be bad news for the Romney campaign.

A new poll finds that adding Chris Christie to the ticket would fail to deliver New Jersey to the Republicans.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

He may be running against Barack Obama, but Mitt Romney seems to mention Jimmy Carter a lot.

Mitt Romney wimped out. Again.

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

There may be reason to doubt reports alleging that Mitt Romney engaged in vicious bullying of a gay classmate as an 18-year-old prepster.

Another example of Republican foreign policy taking precedence over fiscal conservatism.