Outside the Beltway

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.

Most of us with iPhone 4’s use Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant–but for a very limited range of tasks.

The cause of the pain you’re feeling at the pump has little to do with domestic energy policy.

What does it mean to have a limited government?

What are the limits on government power?

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

French mothers do not have some magical formula for raising well behaved children.

Are the American people tuning out of politics altogether?

Will the Obama Administration’s decision on contraceptive coverage by the Catholic Church have an impact in November?

We need to have opinions on a subject as serious as war with Iran.

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

The reaction to the release of Mitt Romney’s tax returns is about what you’d expect.

Newt constantly lays claim to the title “historian” and asserts it as evidence of his insights and as a qualification for office. As such, the quality of the claim matters.

Once again, Ron Paul showed last night why he could never win the Republican nomination.

Mitt Romney’s rivals scored a few hits on him last night, but nothing that’s likely to make a difference.

It seems that Saturday’s vote by evangelical leaders in favor of Rick Santorum was less than meets the eye.

Not surprisingly, it’s the end of Huntsmania

Mitt Romney is taking heat for his role at Bain Capital. He shouldn’t.

Some good news in the December jobs report.

Let’s ban robocalls.

Some Republicans are starting to realize just how badly the House GOP has messed up this time.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

“Democratic” Pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen are out with another wacky Op-Ed.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

Usually if a quote is too good to be true, it is.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

You’d think that in today’s world employers wouldn’t have trouble finding qualified employees. You’d be wrong.

Once again, pundits are suggesting that New York’s Michael Bloomberg might run for President. Though nobody seems to be able to explain why.

“The debt crisis is burrowing ever deeper, like a worm, and is now reaching Germany.”

Grover Norquist has become the target of blame for problems that are far more deep than just one man.

“Democratic” pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen argue that President Obama should decline to run for re-election.

Jon Huntsman’s campaign has never really gotten off the ground. Will conservatives start taking him more seriously?

A dwindling proportion of students are majoring in STEM fields. They’re likely making the wise choice.

Polls are starting to show signs that the sexual harassment allegations are starting to hurt Herman Cain.

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

Why does wine get so much more written treatment than beer?

The Feds fired Monster and now USAJobs is a disaster

Rick Perry’s tax plan isn’t very impressive.

On the day his campaign is set to make a major economic roll out, Rick Perry went the birther route again.

Some on the right are giving Occupy Wall Street and The 99%’ers a second look.

Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 double talk is starting to show