Outside the Beltway

A new poll shows just how badly the GOP is doing among Hispanic voters.

People are seeing irony where it doesn’t exist.

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

You didn’t think it was over, did you?

Arizona’s senior Senator want’s to bomb Syria.

Mitt Romney is likely to put considerable distance between himself and his opponents tomorrow.

Megan McArdle is taking a break of unspecified length from blogging to “work on another project.” Said project, she hastens to add, is not a baby.

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

Peter Berkowitz has presented a flawed legal argument for attacking Iran.

The New Yorker’s cover has Rick Santorum in a doghouse strapped atop Mitt Romney’s car.

Time for the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

The GOP has sold its soul.

Was Return Of The Jedi the best of all the Star Wars films? One writer thinks so.

Rick Santorum wants to nullify nearly 200,000 marriages.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.

Not a surrender. Not even an apology. Just a tactical retreat.

The Phishing Scam Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Nominating Rick Santorum may be the best things Republicans could do to save their party, but not for the reasons Santorum thinks.

For it before he was against it (or something like that).

CBS Sports’ Mike Freeman takes a new look at New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton’s bestseller Home Team in light of the bounty scandal that broke yesterday.

Janelle Nanos investigates her relationship with her iPhone.

Barbara Boxer takes the Daily Show’s “The Vagina Ideologues” bit out of context and deconstructs it during the Senate’s Blunt amendment debate.

GM’s big gamble on the future, the Chevy Volt, isn’t yet paying off.

Many on the right seem unwilling to condemn clearly offensive remarks by Rush Limbaugh

The conservative columnist argues Republicans should concentrate on winning back the Senate and stopping Obama through 2016.

Not surprisingly, the race in the Buckeye State is tightening.

Over the last decade-plus of war, the US Army has relaxed its promotion and retention standards for commissioned and non-commissioned officers. As we transition into peacetime, the pendulum is swinging the other direction.

There is no Republican savior out there.

This morning’s unexpected death of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative muckraker, has sadly if unsurprisingly brought out a wave of nasty commentary.

Billionaires have been free to donate as much money as they want to activist groups since the dawn of the Republic.

President Obama talks sports with Bill SImmons.