Outside the Beltway

Robert Bork, the controversial jurist whose failed Supreme Court bid ushered in a new climate in American politics, has died at 85.

Obsessive media coverage makes us believe mass shootings are far more common than they actually are.

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In a NYT op-ed titled “The Monster of Monticello” Paul Finkelman expresses his befuddlement that people play down Thomas Jefferson’s legacy as a slave owner.

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.

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.

They are playing the game without rules in Egypt.

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.

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.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

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

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.

Mayor Bloomberg has decided to hold the New York Marathon Sunday even though millions are still without power and the city infrastructure is unable to cope with normal activity.

Mitt Romney has ground to make up if he’s going to catch the President and there’s not much time left to do it.

A week out from the election, President Obama is a heavy favorite to win re-election. But the major press continues to pretend otherwise.

Dean Chambers of UnSkewed fame, puts the polling debate into sharp perspective.

As in 2010, Scott Rasmussen’s polling in 2012 has shown a distinct bias in favor of Republicans.

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

No, the electoral college does not encourage the candidates to pay special attention to the small states.

John Sides argues that, contrary to popular conception, undecided voters are neither morons nor non-partisan.