Outside the Beltway

The Chairman of the House Budget Committee is proposing a budget that is based largely on fantasy.

Bullheadedness is a virtue?

A theory on why Benghazi will not die as a political issue.

t’s been more than two-and-a half years since the United States passed major legislation.

Employers have to provide health coverage for those who work 30 hours a week. Guess what?

Congress is historically polarized.

The Speaker’s version of what went down during the negotiations does not make the Speaker look good.

The new $450,000 income threshold is a political fiction.

The GOP’s image problems continue

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.

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

Judging by the record of the past decade and a half, movement conservatism has accomplished very little.

Believing the maker/taker dichotomy.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

The Republican Party needs more than outreach to Hispanics to become a viable national party again.

Any chance that the Affordable Care Act will be repealed died with the re-election of Barack Obama. But, there are other fights to come.

Tthere’s enough bad punditry going around that there’s no need to invent cases to expose.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

One of the few areas of disagreement was how big our military should be.

The Presidential race seems to be returning to the state it was in before the political conventions.

Mitt Romney won the debate last night, but it’s not at all clear that this will matter at all.

The Court’s 2012-2013 term begins tomorrow morning, and there are plenty of big cases on the docket.

A lot more people than expected are likely to be hit by the ObamaCare individual mandate tax penalty than previously thought.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

I give it a C+/B- (adequate, passing, nothing exceptional).

Paul Ryan did what he needed to do last night, but in the long run his speech will be lost to history.

Paul Ryan pointed to a shuttered GM plant in his hometown as proof of Obama’s failed policies. The truth will make your head hurt.

National Review’s Kevin Williamson has some truly bizarre advice for Mitt Romney.

A black ‘Democrat’ who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008 is endorsing Romney in 2012. It’s not a big deal.

Most of the early reaction on the right consider’s the selection of Paul Ryan a smart move on Mitt Romney’s part, but you could also say it’s just risky.

Once again, the usual suspects are exploiting tragedy for political purposes.

Provisions in the Affordable Care Act may cause the entire statutory scheme to collapse.

Is the Romney camp snubbing Sarah Palin?

The House engaged in a mostly pointless action yesterday afternoon.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

A case study in what’s wrong with the “Breaking News” media.

The GOP’s arguments about the impact of ObamaCare on Medicare are dishonest and hypocritical.

The debate over whether the PPACA’s individual mandate is a “penalty” or a “tax”seems rather pointless.