Outside the Beltway

The Sucker Punch Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

When someone calls Obama a Marxist, they’re exposing their own ignorance.

The second half of the President’s political strategy is in place. Don’t mistake it for a serious legislative effort.

The decision to split Netflix into two companies makes no sense. Unless you look behind the scenes.

In a truly bizarre move, Netflix is spinning off the DVD-by-mail business that built them into an international brand and going stream-only. Those wishing to keep getting movies will have to sign on to something called Qwikster.

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

Paul Krugman seems to believe that something like the bubble economy we enjoyed until it burst in 2008 could be had again if only our leaders were sufficiently bold.

As more details roll in on President Obama’s millionaire tax hike, it’s looking like it was drawn up by J. Wellington Wimpy: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

Time for the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.

Some perspective on “soaking the rich.”

We won’t solve our fiscal problems by soaking “the rich.”

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

President Obama is proposing a special tax rate for millionaires.

The Troy Ploy Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Where do we stand after 224 years?

Is there another explanation for Michele Bachmann’s decision to keep bringing Rick Perry’s HPV vaccine order up?

We’re getting close to the point where only two people on this stage will matter.

The economy continues to drag the President down.

Foolishly, the Palestinians are going forward with their effort to get Palestinian statehood recognized by the United Nations.

Public disapproval of Congress continues to fall.

Contrary to what Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman argue today, compassion does not require one to support government social welfare programs.

Ivar Giaever, the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, has resigned from the American Physical Society over its declaration that “global warming is occurring” and that “the evidence is incontrovertible.”

Far from being an existential crisis, the recent rise in public distrust in government is easily explained.

One provision of the President’s jobs bill would give an ill-advised right to the unemployed.

A book could be written on this subject, but let me suggest the following as a good place to start

James Carville has some advice for Barack Obama. It boils down to “be like Bill Clinton.”

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

More pay for play at the White House?

NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.

Of the institutions designed by the Framers, the electoral college is the one that deserves the least amount of defense if one’s defense is predicated on assumptions of the genius of said framers.

Last week’s opinions from the Fourth Circuit provide an avenue for the Supreme Court to avoid an early ruling on the individual mandate.

Time for the Thursday OTB Caption Contest^TM

Why even have an electoral college?