Outside the Beltway

Yesterday, Cory Booker committed the rookie mistake of saying what was on his mind.

Recipe plagiarism and a bonus tale.

Republican politicians have largely avoided the topic of same-sex marriage since President Obama’s announcement. Why?

Here’s why nobody in Washington will allow the Bush Tax Cuts to expire.

Americans Elect is dead. This should surprise nobody.

Your tax dollars should not be paying for this.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

A pro-Republican SuperPAC may be bringing the Jeremiah Wright story back. That would be bad news for the Romney campaign.

A new poll finds that adding Chris Christie to the ticket would fail to deliver New Jersey to the Republicans.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

Some Republicans see the light on same-sex marriage. Whether the party will listen is another question.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

He may be running against Barack Obama, but Mitt Romney seems to mention Jimmy Carter a lot.

Mitt Romney wimped out. Again.

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

There may be reason to doubt reports alleging that Mitt Romney engaged in vicious bullying of a gay classmate as an 18-year-old prepster.

Americans are getting pessimistic about the state of the economy again.

Some blogger wants to pay someone to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts. It’s time for this silliness to end.

The battle is on for control of the Senate, but whoever wins is likely to have a very slim majority.

All of a sudden, people are talking about Mike Huckabee as a potential Romney running mate.

The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

Some thoughts on the potential impact of the President’s announcement on same-sex marriage.

The same-sex marriage pivot that everyone was expecting has come.

Further thoughts on Ron Paul’s game plan, assuming he has one.

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

Mitt Romney has a big problem. People don’t seem to like him very much.