Outside the Beltway

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

The Have Another? Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Rick Santorum is Michele Bachmann level crazy. Yet he’s arguably the Republican frontrunner right now.

Yet more revelations about Ron Paul’s newsletters.

Last night was the high point of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for the Presidency.

The Ames Straw Poll isn’t going away any time soon.

If you’re running low on cash, keeping it low-key in a state you can’t win sometimes make sense.

Ron Paul has a new explanation for those newsletters of his.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

Iowa Republicans fear that a Ron Paul win on Jan. 3rd will destroy the credibility of their caucuses.

It was a good day for Newt Gingrich, but will it matter in the end?

From across the pond, an observation that the way we pick Presidents isn’t really that bad after all.

Michele Bachmann is looking for a few good staffers for the Granite State.

Last night’s GOP debate was a two-man affair.

Richard Cohen reports that people like Richard Cohen have lost their enthusiasm for Barack Obama.

Pat Buchanan referred to President Obama as “your boy” in conversation with Al Sharpton.

Some on the left are upset with the President, but does it really matter?

On this day in 1990, President H.W. Bush broke his “No new taxes” pledge.

Contrary to what Senator McCain, seeking realism in military policy does not make one an isolationist.

The race for the GOP nomination is taking shape.

Herman Cain is getting a lot of attention lately, but will he amount to anything?

With Huckabee out, the right side of the GOP primary base may end up divided. And that will help Mitt Romney.

With co-frontrunner Mike Huckabee out, Mitt Romney looks stronger than ever.

Nate Silver argues today’s polls “have a reasonable amount of predictive power in informing us as to the identity of the eventual nominee.”

Are Marco Rubio, Haley Barbour, and Mike Huckabee the favorites to win the White House?

Has anyone told Mike Bloomberg that “No Labels” is, well, a label?

Even though it will likely be unsuccessful, a primary challenge against President Obama could end up harming him enough to hand Republicans the White House in 2012.

Conservatives seem very eager for Hillary Clinton to get back on the campaign trial, but it’s not going to happen.

While President Obama is pushing the Afghanistan surge, large numbers of elected Democrats are demanding we get out.

Jim Webb argues that we should stop measuring diversity by race alone.

Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.

Rural whites are outperformed by Jews and Asians and passed over by blacks and Hispanics in the name of “diversity” by elite universities.

CNN is launching a debate program featuring one host from the Left and another from the Right. Why not call it “Crossfire”?

An oft-abused phrase.