Outside the Beltway

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?

Wherein I get a bit petty (but to make a point and, maybe just because it amuses me).

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

Republicans already seem to be blaming Hurricane Sandy in the event Mitt Romney loses.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.