Outside the Beltway

Apparent tragedy at a Connecticut Elementary School.

It’s okay to criticize military veterans–even if you never served in the military.

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

George Zimmerman’s attorneys have filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC News.

A outline of a deal both sides could live with.

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

Want to teach political science for a living? Go to one of a handful of top schools or don’t bother.

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies, explaining that raising children is easier than it used to be, so there’s really no excuse for women to be so selfish.

The New York Post splashed the photo of a man pushed in front of a train on their cover.

Dick Armey has resigned as chairman of Tea Party group FreedomWorks over unspecified principles.

Perhaps we should take a pass on trying to reach a deal on resolving issues propelling us toward the Fiscal Cliff.

A photograph of a New York cop putting boots on a homeless man went viral. The man remains bootless, however.

The new psychiatric diagnostic manual does away with some common ailments and adds some new ones.

Vilifying Thomas Jefferson is as much as mistake as placing him on a pedestal.

Ronald Reagan won the tax fight. The debate now centers on whether to continue cutting taxes or slightly reverse the trend.

With just about a month to go before we hit the “Fiscal Cliff.” things don’t look good at all.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

There aren’t enough readers who want political reporting that’s “more substantive than POLITICO and much more sophisticated than C.Q.” and willing to pay for it.

Possibly a big week for the Supreme Court.

Seems that the answer continues to be “no.”

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is costing it yet another demographic group.

There’s been a bit of buzz of late about the fact that people in several states have filed petitions to secede from the Union. There shouldn’t be.

As we approach the fiscal cliff, there are signs that House Republicans may not be as rigid as they were the past two years.

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

Political reality says that the Bush Tax Cuts for high income earners are likely doomed in the wake of the election, but the GOP will find it very hard to switch positions on this issue.

The scandal that led to P4’s downfall has many layers, none of them flattering to the most famous American general of his generation.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?