Outside the Beltway

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

Some interesting developments in Pyongyang.

“The average Canadian has quietly become richer than the average American,” claims a pro-Canada organization.

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the New York Times has found that it’s easier to raise children if there are two parents and two incomes than one parent and one income.

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

Byron York reacts to a CNNMoney story titled “Government wants more people on food stamps” by snarking, “And Democrats reacted angrily when Gingrich called Obama ‘food stamp president.'”

Why isn’t the American middle class and working class angrier at the 1 percent?

New York’s Governor is proposing a change in the law that could spare thousands of people a year from an unnecessary trip through the legal system.

The arrival of Discovery in Washington D.C. has led to another lament about “national greatness.”

The NYT has an interesting piece on the ongoing limted v. big governemnt debate.

David Frum begins a withering review for The Daily Beast, “Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 is an important book that will have large influence. It is unfortunately not a good book.”

Mitt Romney stumbled a bit during his victory tour this morning.

Have Americans divided themselves into what are becoming increasingly different cultures?

Mitch Daniels got the unenviable task of responding to the State Of The Union Address last night.

The speech did exactly what it was supposed to do: kick off Obama’s re-election campaign while disguised as a call for unity.

Rick Santorum returns to his old ways when asked about same-sex marriage.

Newt Gingrich provides another example.

Not surprisingly, the last man to lead the Soviet Union believes we’d be better off if it still existed.

In a year-end fundraisers, VDARE’s founder wished Paul had “defened his letters on the basis of truth.”

One conservative contends that George Bailey is teaching America the wrong lessons.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Barack Obama now looks to the Rough Rider himself for inspiration. Can’t he find it himself?

Rick Santorum has some extreme views on social welfare. Of course, he isn’t alone.

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

Gaddafi is dead, but it was still wrong for the United States to get involved in Libya.

Judging them by their own manifesto, the Occupy Wall Street protesters are pretty silly people.

Dick Morris has a penchant for counter-intuitive analysis. And for being wildly wrong.

Contrary to what Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman argue today, compassion does not require one to support government social welfare programs.

A record 46 million Americans are living in poverty.

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

Rick Perry’s position on immigration-related issues could be a problem for the same conservatives who have been getting behind him.

Jon Huntsman is out with a tax and jobs plan that deserves a lot more attention than it’s likely to get.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.

Rubio may be wowing conservatives audience, but is his rhetoric grounded in reality?

It pays to read a scientific study before commenting on it.

Senator Al Franken called Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery a liar in yesterday’s hearing on DOMA. Franken was the one being dishonest.

A space shuttle lifted off for the last time on Friday, and some people seem to think its the beginning of the end of America.

So, apparently, Paul Ryan has expensive tastes in wine.

Illegal immigration from Mexico is down substantially, and it has nothing to do with all those anti-immigration laws.

Cynthia Tucker regrets her support for majority-minority districts.