Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

The Pew Center is out with a new political typology.

If you look at the Tea Party’s impact on state politics, you see it really isn’t much different from the Religious Right.

Did the GOP toss social conservatives under the bus when it gave away the Planned Parenthood rider?

What, if anything, does the budget deal mean for the future?

For the past day or so, America’s fighting men have been pawns in a cynical political game.

So far, the Republican House’s effort to cut back Federal spending isn’t very impressive.

Mitch Daniels says that the GOP needs to get beyond its obsession with social issues if it’s going to survive. He’s right.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.

President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of the Defense Of Marriage Act on appeal was a proper and appropriate exercise of his authority as President Of The United States.

Critics of the GOP’s efforts to restrict Federal funding of abortion and related services confuse the concept of the right to have an abortion with the idea that someone has a claim on taxpayer dollars.

The success of Christian conservatives in blocking efforts to legalize Sunday alcohol sales in Georgia demonstrates why concentrating solely on national politics is a mistake.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels made quite an impression last night at CPAC

On the eve of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, another shot has been fired by those boycotting the meeting due to the presence of a gay conservative group.

While most Americans consider themselves “conservatives,” some conservatives exclude most Americans from the definition.

The Winner Winner Chicken Dinner Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

In response to charges that it was attempting restrict abortion access beyond the boundaries of the Hyde Amendment, the GOP has agreed to drop the phrase “forcible rape” from its abortion bill.

No, the legislation does not in any way “suggest that some kind of rape that would be okay.”

The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” would remove the exception for non-forcible rape.

Once again, it looks like efforts to reform the Senate’s filibuster rules have fallen victim to that old devil politics.

Social conservatives are upset with CPAC again. This time, it’s because the conference they’re not attending has invited someone they don’t like.

In a new interview, Justice Antonin Scalia says that the 14th Amendment does not bar discrimination against women, whether it’s done by public or private entities. He couldn’t be more wrong.

A somewhat surprising court decision from the European Union gives a glimpse of what the situation in the United States would be if Roe v. Wade were overturned.

Might Rudy do better in 2012 than he did in 2008?