Outside the Beltway

Thousands of pedestrians are killed in America each year. Are we doing enough about it?

My more-or-less defunct Yahoo email account is being used to send out spam messages to people in my address book.

There have been no significant surveys of the Republican field taken since the announcement that frontrunners Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump and Establishment darling Mitch Daniels have dropped out of the race.

Sarah Palin has commissioned a film to bolster her reputation. This is very intriguing on a number of levels.

The GOP doesn’t have a charismatic superstar waiting in the wings. That’s okay.

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

The 4th Circuit has asked for supplemental briefs on an issue that could put a quick end to the lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act.

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.

The selection process for the Joint Chiefs has been most odd.

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

This is how President Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.
It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice.

Barack Obama

24 May 2008

It was really nice until he got the date wrong by three years. Granted, 2008 was a great year for him, and we might try to live it for as long as possible, too, if we were him. Also, though, he may have had a stroke.

Republicans tired of the current slate of presidential candidates can rest easy: Thaddeus McCotter may offer up his services.

Save water: Grow a beard.

A summary of the status of the “Arab Spring” uprisings with links to news coverage and commentary.

Voters in New York State may help move the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

Now here’s a story you don’t see every day: The head coach of a major college basketball team leaving for a service academy.

Prisons can be so overcrowded as to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

Obama brings rapid response, blogger “hand holding” in-house.

When will the madness end?

The Eats, Shoots and Leaves Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Comparing Obama to Carter on foreign policy (especially in terms of electoral politics) doesn’t make sense.

You don’t often see a candidate for President tell Iowans that he wants to eliminate ethanol subsidies, but Tim Pawlenty did.

Even before the individual mandate kicks in, the ACA has added hundreds of thousands of people to health insurance rolls.

Frank R. Lindh, father of Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi (aka Sulayman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, and John Walker Lindh) has an op-ed in the NYT asking “Bin Laden’s Gone. Can My Son Come Home?” The answer is, sure: In another 8 to 11 years.

The bungled politics of the Ryan plan.

Is Donald Trump back in the race? Not yet, but he hasn’t ruled it out.