Outside the Beltway

President Obama sees the golf course as the only place to escape the pressures of the job.

Can a candidate appealing enough to the base to win the Republican nomination beat Obama?

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

Donald Trump, who may or may not be running for President, is continuing his strange obsession with the birther myth, and reminding Republicans that two years of silence in the face of lunacy may come back to bite them.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

Republicans are starting to sour on Sarah Palin, meaning that they’re finally starting to catch up to the rest of the country.

79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. 18% are undecided.

While there are doubtless flaws with the journalistic values and culture of the New Media, we too often contrast today with a Golden Age of Media that never existed.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

Mike Huckabee apologized for saying Barack Obama grew up in Kenya, explaining only that he meant that the president isn’t a Real American.

A former Democratic state attorney general thinks Wisconsin’s Republican governor may have violated state ethics laws while on a prank phone call.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

In a new Gallup poll, Americans rank Ronald Reagan as America’s Greatest President.

You don’t have to be Admiral Akbar to suspect that the President’s refusal to deal with entitlements in his budget proposal is a trap for the GOP.

The White House Press Office produces a blog, YouTube channel, Flickr photo stream, Facebook and Twitter profiles, and daily video programming.

Ezra Klein dubs the Federal government “an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.”

The new Chairman of the American Conservative Union seems to want to mend fences with social conservatives, even if that means throwing new friends under the bus.

Ron Paul is poised to win the CPAC Straw Poll. So what?

On the eve of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, another shot has been fired by those boycotting the meeting due to the presence of a gay conservative group.

Is the only possible motivation conservatives could possibly have for calling out the lunatic fringe a desire for the acceptance of liberals?

Ronald Reagan would have turned 100 today. Here are some thoughts on his legacy.

Sarah Palin spoke about Ronald Reagan last night, but seems to have forgotten the optimism that is part of The Gipper’s legacy.

While most Americans consider themselves “conservatives,” some conservatives exclude most Americans from the definition.

Was the 2011 SOTU a blatant rip-off of past speeches? Or simply banal?

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

A new book by President Reagan’s youngest son raises allegations that the former President was showing signs of Alzheimer’s Disease while still in office, and that’s led to a family feud between the two Reagan brothers.

George Allen is running for his old Senate seat.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

Palin’s infamous “target” poster recycles a theme used by both parties over the years.

House Republicans want to do away with the increasing number of “czars” in the White House.

John P. Wheeler III, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund during the Ronald Reagan era, has been murdered.