Outside the Beltway

Clarence Thomas is the latest Supreme Court Justice to be the subject of retirement rumors. You should treat these rumors skeptically.

Donald Trump is apparently having money troubles.

Bill Kristol is continuing the #NeverTrump fight to its logical next step, trying to find a more mainstream Republican to run as an independent in the fall.

Sarah Palin is back, and she’s endorsing Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for President.

Representatives from most of the Republican Presidential campaigns met to discuss reforms to the debate process, but none of their ideas will actually improve the quality of debates.

Everyone is sick of the current approach. The candidates are looking for a new one.

Compromise is simply necessary for the country to function.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

It’s time for another White House Correspondent’s Dinner, and it’s going to be just as atrocious as the last one. But, the dinner isn’t the real problem.

A series of mini-scandals point to the conflicts of interest around the Clintons.

Conservatives finally seem to be waking up to the truth about Sarah Palin.

Everything old is new again.

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

Apparently, the security at Tuesday’s memorial for Nelson Mandela was so lax as to be nearly non-existent.

The faux scandal of today comes to us courtesy of The Daily Caller: “Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website.”

Day One of the Obamacare online “marketplaces” is proving to be a bit of a bumpy ride.

Conservatives are doing what they criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Time to “pivot to the economy” again.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

The Washington Examiner, which for a while became the conservative alternative to the Washington Post, is ceasing daily publication to become a conservative alternative to The Hill.

In just four day the UnSkewed prediction has moved Obamaward.

Dean Chambers of UnSkewed fame, puts the polling debate into sharp perspective.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

Romney supporters seem to want to paint Obama as Carter. This is unlikely to help.

Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.

Your tax dollars should not be paying for this.

The Senate didn’t have a productive 2011. Is this just a case of laziness?

What would have happened if Sarah Palin had decided to run for the Republican nomination this year?

Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for the Obama 2012 campaign.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

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

It’s hard to see how Newt Gingirch can remain a viable candidate given his past

Cain’s woes continue to mount.

Mitt Romney played it safe on a controversial issue again.

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

Are we placing far too much importance on how someone does in a two hour so-called “debate”?

Success in Libya does not make the American mission any less unjustified than it was on the day President Obama announced it.

Rick Perry’s vision of capitalism doesn’t exactly comply with what Adam Smith had in mind.

Does Ron Paul’s second place showing at Ames mean the media should take him seriously as a contender? No, it doesn’t.

On reflection, the nature of Marcus Bachmann’s influence over his wife is indeed a legitimate question in a political campaign.

Newt Gingrich and his wife had a quarter million dollar line of credit at Tiffany’s. A story, a scandal, or much ado about nothing? I’ll take Door Number Three.