Outside the Beltway

Sarah Palin will be heading to yet another important primary state while insisting she isn’t running for President yet. And the press follows her like a lonely puppy.

David Blight recounts the story of the first Memorial Day.

Across the country, Republicans are pushing laws that will make voting harder.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

It’s Campaign Fact of Life No. 1: If you aren’t a factor in the race, you aren’t going to get free media.

Last night’s Presidential Debate in South Carolina was interesting, but, in the end, not very important.

Why are many of the top Republicans are sitting out the race despite a seemingly vulnerable incumbent?

In all honesty, much of what is coming out of the mouths of self-described conservatives is actually pretty darn radical.

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is beginning to more like a real candidate for President. She won’t win, but she will be entertaining.

Florida has again scheduled its primary ahead of the deadlines set by the Republican and Democratic parties.

Rick Santorum is upset that a Google search for his name produces a string of unflattering material. You should be, too.

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

Republicans in Idaho are talking about resurrecting the foolish and discredited idea of nullification as a weapon in the fight against ObamaCare.

The political firestorm that has erupted in the wake of the shootings in Arizona is drifting, inevitably, into calls for more government control over the content of speech.

Anti-Immigrant groups are beginning their assault on the 14th Amendment, but don’t expect it to go anywhere.

Red States should gain 10 seats while Blue States should lose eight.

What the Haley Barbour situation illustrates is that we, as a country, have not fully accepted or dealt with our own past.

New polling shows that Mitt Romney is well behind the Fox News candidates for 2012.

150 years ago today a group of men gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and made one of the gravest mistakes in American history. They should not be honored for it.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows and, when it comes to the debate over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, anti-tax Republicans are making common cause with soak-the-rich progressives.

Further thoughts on a rather radical proposed Amendment to the Constitution, prompted by a link from Instapundit.

Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough wants the GOP to stop kowtowing to Sarah Palin and her acolytes. He’s right.

The battle between social and fiscal conservatives continues, with the SoCons now saying that criticism of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint is now considered evidence of ideological impurity.

Lack of support from a key constituency may pose a threat to Nancy Pellosi’s effort to stay on as leader of Democrats in the House of Representatives.

While Tim Pawlenty and John Thune get high marks from insiders, they have next to no shot at winning the 2012 Republican nomination for president.