Outside the Beltway

Some blogger wants to pay someone to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts. It’s time for this silliness to end.

All of a sudden, people are talking about Mike Huckabee as a potential Romney running mate.

The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

Some thoughts on the potential impact of the President’s announcement on same-sex marriage.

Further thoughts on Ron Paul’s game plan, assuming he has one.

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

Mitt Romney has a big problem. People don’t seem to like him very much.

The White House is playing a game that few people are buying.

Ron Paul’s supporters are racking up delegate wins at party conventions in caucus states, but it won’t matter in the end.

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy sees “Good and Bad News for Obama” in Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

The blind Chinese activist who daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention is about to get his wish to come to America.

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

Based on the postmortems, it certainly seems like the Romney campaign threw Richard Grenell under the bus.

The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.

Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

The biggest argument against Romney winning in November is the fact that there aren’t many ways for him to get to those pesky 270 Electoral Votes.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

The American economy is so bad that people are reverse migrating to the Third World.

Some thoughts on the voter registration/voter turnout debate.

Last week, an absurd campaign became even more absurd.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Thomas Friedman is fantasizing about Michael Bloomberg again.

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

Get ready for a long, painful ordeal at the end of which we’re supposed to pick a President.

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?