Outside the Beltway

Last night’s one and only Nevada Senate Debate was an embarrassing affair all around, but it most likely sealed the electoral doom of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The Washington Post looks around and discovers that the Tea Party isn’t racist after all. Their bad, I guess.

Paul Krugman argues that recent economic crises demonstrate that America has failed at corporate governance, banking, and the rule of law.

Only days after a Federal Court Judge issued an injunction preventing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy from being enforced, Obama Administration has asked for a stay and announced that it will be appealing the case.

The Shovel Ready Project Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A Federal Judge in Florida has handed a significant, albeit procedural, victory to the opponents of ObamaCare.

Desperate Democrats demonize donors, facts be damned.

Tonight’s topics: The latest mortgage scandal, lust for a third party, the role of judges in Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, political motorcades and their impact on the little people, and who knows what else. I hear there’s an election coming up, so perhaps that will enter into the discussion as well.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.

We must abandon an Industrial Age education system that rewards compliance and stifles creativity.

Politicians are, by definition, a bit abnormal. However, this year we seem to have more than our fair share of the truly odd.

The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney (G) is misspelled as ‘Whitey’ on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen Chicago wards — about half in predominantly African-American areas.

Lots of jobs that existed in recent memory — secretaries, travel agents, gas station attendants, cashiers — have been replaced by technology. The middle class may be disappearing with them.

Last night’s Delaware Senate debate was entertaining, but it’s unlikely to move the polls very much.

The skyrocketing cost of tuition makes it harder for students to justify getting a liberal arts education rather than training for a high paying job.

54% of Americans want an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans. The question remains as to what kind of third party they want.

A group of conservative activists is planning a last minute ad blitz that could help put several Republican challengers over the top.

Should members of the Armed Forces and other public employees have the same rights under the 1st Amendment as the rest of us? Or should they be more like journalists?

Time for the Thursday OTB Caption Contest^TM

After two months deep underground, thirty-three Chilean miners are finally back home.

Banks are faced with a huge number of foreclosures and that resources they’ve allocated towards handling them was woefully inadequate.

As widely rumored, Fredi Gonzalez has been hired to manage the Atlanta Braves, following the retirement of the beloved Bobby Cox.

Harry Reid think it’s his Constitutional duty spend other people’s money and bring it home to Nevada. His constituents seem to have other ideas this year.

Former car czar Steve Rattner sat down with Ezra Klein to whine about how the American people and its Congress wouldn’t just turn over the whole economy to unelected experts such as himself.

American troops in Afghanistan are overindulging in the fast food fare brought in to raise their morale.

Insane Clown Posse are Christians, yo. And they say Fuck a lot.

Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.

Changing economic realities led to a role reversal: television is where you turn for smart entertainment, whereas the movies have become lowbrow.

The most congested part of DC was shut down at the most inconvenient time possible last evening so that President Obama could attend a partisan political event. It’s a routine outrage.

Greg Mankiw notes a curious revisionism in Barney Frank’s pronouncements on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.

Michelle Rhee is stepping down as chancellor of DC’s school system by “mutual consent” with the newly elected mayor.