Outside the Beltway

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

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” for 2011 is much different than their “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” for 2003.

Despite our rather obvious problems, we’re in great shape compared to the rest of the developed world and, especially, to even our fairly recent ancestors.

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

Time for the Thanksgiving OTB Caption Contest^TM

We’re hearing the howls of a wounded bear.

Newt Gingrich spoke some truth on immigration last night, and that might hurt him with Republican voters.

Canada’s National Post have illustrated how the Anyone But Romney race has gone to date:

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

The Walk About Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

A Democrat sees doom and gloom as far as the eye can see.

Newt Gingrich, Republican frontrunner. Four words most people never thought they’d see together.

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

Mitt Romney’s first television ad is built around a Barack Obama quote that has been cropped so that he’s saying the opposite of what he actually said.

Rick Perry wants a no-fly zone in Syria to prevent ground forces from harming civilians.

The NYPD is wantonly violating the 1st Amendment.

Campainging like is it 1999.

Are Republicans mostly to blame for the supercommittee failure?

With the Super Committee dead, 2012 is likely to see a fight over the defense cuts set to take place starting in 2013.

Are these The Final Two?

Stephen Green explains how Washington cuts the deficit in a mere eight steps.

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How did Republicans get in this mess?

Treating entertainment as entertainment is one thing. Treating it as news and education is another.