Outside the Beltway

Sarah Palin is causing headaches among fellow Republicans regarding her 2010 endorsement activities.

Politico says 99 Democratic House seats are “in play.” They’re not. But dozens are.

The coalition of voters that propelled Barack Obama to an historic victory in 2008 is seemingly falling apart, and the President is reacting by blaming the voters.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.

For a guy who has no chance of winning, Carl Paladino certainly knows how to get himself press coverage.

Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the iconic HOPE poster, is disappointed with President Obama.

The effort to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell suffered a setback in the Senate today that likely delays any further moves on the issue until after the midterm elections.

For the moment, the Tea Party movement is helping pull the GOP out of a slump that seemed like it would continue for a long time. Will it last, or will the movement end up doing for Republicans what the left has done for Democrats ?

The prospect of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell before the November elections is in doubt thanks to a threatened filibuster led by Arizona’s John McCain.

At least one Christine O’Donnell supporter thinks that Republicans who aren’t jumping on are bandwagon are doing so because of her gender.

Is President Obama poised to make a recess appointment for Elizabth Warren?

While Republicans will likely take over some key governorships and state legislature after November’s midterms, America’s changing demographics will limit their ability to gerrymander safe districts.

Newt Gingrich is feeding the fires again, this time claiming that the President may be guided by a “Kenyan,” “anti-colonialist” worldview.

A new poll indicates that there are some disturbing motivations that seem to be associated with opposition to the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.”

Robert Gates has been a reluctant Secretary of Defense but his impact at the Pentagon has been tremendous.

If Republicans stick to their current (apparent) game plan and just run on not being Democrats, they will have neither a mandate to repeal Obamacare, et al, nor the will.

President Obama didn’t use the words “Mission Accomplished” last night, but the message was the same.

The perfect storm of a bad economy and a new, massive, unpopular government entitlement program may be combing to cause serious damage to Democrats in November.

More audio from Angle’s past interviews.

It would appear that the Pauls have different views on Park51.

The only reasons Michael Kinsley can conjure for opposing the Park51 project are bigotry and political opportunism. Unless you’re a really smart columnist.

Rick Lazio is running for Governor of New York and he’s found an issue in the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” but it doesn’t seem to be helping him in the polls.

America’s mission in Iraq is shifting from an active combat role to a smaller security presence. But the war that gripped our attention for years is now off the radar screen.

Rand Paul is apparently taking heat from some of his more socially conservative supporters after FEC reports indicate he received a donation from the owner of an Adult web site. People need to get a life.

America’s obsession over the fate of the Burlington Coat Factory in Lower Manhattan, and a general rise in anti-Islamic rhetoric, plays right into the hands of the people that are actually our enemies.

Steve Emerson has reportedly found 13 hours of tape of Cordoba Initiative chairman Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and found him to be a “radical extremist cleric who cloaks himself in sheep’s clothing.” Does it matter?

A small slice of what people at the epicenter of the Park51 controversy have to say.

The Associated Press tells its reports to stop using the phrase “Ground Zero Mosque.” That’s a good thing.

If the response to Cordoba House isn’t basically being anti-Muslim, what is it?

Strippers didn’t attack us on 9/11. Then again, neither did American Muslims.

Ann Coulter has been dis-invited from a World Net Daily conference for her decision to speak at a convention sponsored by a gay conservative group.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has struck down a US basing rights deal.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, appearing on San Francisco’s KCBS radio, called for an investigation in the efforts to stop the building of a Muslim cultural center at the hallowed Burlington Coat Factory location blocks from Ground Zero.

Given public opinion on the proposed Islamic community center that is currently cominating the news, we would expect that opposition to the project would be strongest in Manhattan itself.

If it was called the “Burlington Coat Factory community center” would anyone care about Cordoba House?

Harry Reid has spent the summer trying to portray is opponent as a kook. So far, it’s working.

There’s not as much conservative unity on the gay marriage issue as there used to be.

Mitch McConnell and Al Franken provide a lesson in Senate comity.