Outside the Beltway

President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.

Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.

Since November, the Unemployment Rate has fallen a full percentage point, a sign that this is more than just a minor recovery.

President Obama is once again catching flak for his leisure activities.

Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)

Much like the buds starting to appear on the Cherry Blossom trees in Washington, D.C., February’s jobs report offers some signs of new life for the labor market.

Moodys warns the the Republican plan to cut spending could cost the economy 700,000 jobs.

Is Saudi Arabia the next domino to fall in the Middle East? The Royal family is hoping that money will be enough to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Since Barack Obama took office, federal taxes have been lower for pretty much everyone.

The unrest continues as those killed during protests are buried. Plus some facts about Bahrain.

President Obama isn’t unbeatable in 2012. but it’s clear even now that he’s going to be a far more formidable opponent than many Republicans seem to think.

Being unemployed, especially in the long term, makes it less likely to get hired.

We need to remember who actually sets the budget and, further, who is ultimtately responsible for the behavior of politicians.

Knowing his downfall was imminent, the former Egyptian dictator moved vast wealth out of rich of Western governments.

President Obama is telling business they have a social responsibility to invest in America. He’s wrong.

The January jobs report is, in a word, disappointing.

While illegal immigration in the United States remains enormous, it has dropped considerably over the last three years.

The events in Egypt have led some to ask if the mere act of cutting off access to the Internet is, in itself, an human rights violation.

It is always easier to compromise on more spending and less taxes.

Part two of the ongoing series blogging Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

What happened to the 15 million jobs that were supposed to be created in the past 10 years but weren’t?

Time for midterms.

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.

Some members of Congress sleep in their offices in lieu of renting residences in DC. Fiscally responsible or kinda odd?

We’re producing more PhDs and JDs than there are full time openings for professors and lawyers.

President Obama’s comments about the “relatively modest pay” earned by Robert Gibbs and other high level government workers may be a bit tone deaf. But they’re right.

If Democrats had been this effective the previous two years, would they have lost as badly in November?

There’s plenty of good news for Barack Obama in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

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

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.

Several smart center-left commentators argue that President Obama is not triangulating. At least one argues there’s no such thing.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he isn’t running for President, but he’s sure acting like a guy who’s at least thinking about it.