Outside the Beltway

The constantly changing face of Superman, the iconic comic book superhero, over the 73 years since he debuted in Action Comics #1.

Signs that Newt Gingrich’s rise may be faltering.

A shocking new polls shows that most Americans would like to receive Social Security and not pay for it.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

Musing about his smarts.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

Time for the Thursday OTB Caption Contest^TM

Proving yet again that the plural of anecdote is not data.

Protesters in the Chinese fishing village of Wukan are now in open revolt against the Chinese government. The government is laying siege to the town.

Do American courts throw people in jail for failing to pay their debts? No, they don’t.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

America’s greatest statesmen fear America’s political paralysis endangers our ability to lead the world.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Usually if a quote is too good to be true, it is.

Air Force personnel charged with transporting the bodies of American soldiers killed in action apparently finds dead American warriors funny.

Back in the late 90s, Newt wanted to execute marjiuana traffickers.

More in common than they might think.

A new Gallup poll indicates that it is Big Government, not Big Business, that most concerns the American public.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

Fareed Zakaria thinks we’re wasting too much time playing Angry Birds.

Yesterday’s encounter between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was less than it could have been.

Savage has offered Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the race and Beck has said that he’d vote for Ron Paul as a third party candidate rather than supporting the former Speaker.

The Lego My Blago Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.