Outside the Beltway

Somebody has an odd idea of “inspirational.”

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

Reports of the death of the space program are greatly exaggerated.

Three new polls provide a warning to both sides of the debt negotiations, but mostly to Republicans.

A video of the New York Times website from September 2010 to July 2011.

The GOP’s debt ceiling stance appears to be making some in business uneasy.

The participants in the debt negotiations are being led by constituencies that have little interest in compromise.

The First Lady is coming under fire for hypocrisy in her meal choices.

A study shows how a brief blip in payments in 1979 had negative consequences.

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

Not surprisingly, people still order that big juicy cheeseburger even after being told it contains over 1,000 calories.

There’s apparently a new proposal on the table at the debt negotiations, and it looks very interesting.

The biggest news story of the past six weeks was something completely trivial.

The so-called “14th Amendment option” to fix the debt ceiling crisis is really just a prescription for an even more powerful Presidency.

The normally loquacious Chávez has been almost silent since emergency surgery in Cuba on June 10th.

Gene Weingarten is not a fan of journalists building a brand.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

Gingrich is beyond toast.

I’ve been arguing for years that what the Republican Party needs is to embrace its crazies and play more to racist elements in its base. It looks like someone’s listening.

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

President Obama comfortably leads all Republicans but one.

Jack Kevorkian, the man who’s illegal assisted suicide rampage earned him the nickname “Dr. Death,” has died.

A passenger started a fight over a reclined airplane seat, causing fighter planes to scramble.

Herman Cain is getting a lot of attention lately, but will he amount to anything?

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

Mitch Daniels, the candidate of George Will and a host of mainstream Republicans hoping for something better in 2012, has announced he will not be running for president in 2012.

Part of a speech that Mitch Daniels made in 2009 is setting off a firestorm among some conservative bloggers.

Once again, Congressional abdication has led to an Executive Branch power grab.

Does the Donald Trump flame-out provide any kind of guide to other candidates? Only if they want to host a reality show.

Romney wants to make a federalism based argument for why his MA health care bill is good, while the PPACA is tyrannical. However, just saying that is not an argument.

John McCain thoroughly dismantles the argument that Osama bin Laden’s capture vindicates the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

A lot of people appear confused at to what the debt ceiling is and why it has to be raised.

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

Birtherism dies a quick death–and with it the notion that Obama’s opponents are motivated purely by race.

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.