Outside the Beltway

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

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.

Like most endorsements, Jeb Bush’s endorsement of Mitt Romney is unlikely to have a major impact on the race.

Does Joe Biden think he can succeed his boss?

Is it fair to single out the most powerful man in radio’s commentary for attention?

Is the presumptive Republican nominee too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans?

Why are all the candidates for president so awful?

Last night, South Carolina was Gingrich Country.

There’s no law requiring Presidential candidates to release their tax returns. Should they be expected to do it anyway?

If the Right clings to the belief that President Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil, it will likely end up handing the election to him.

Looking back at the Electoral College results of the modern era–and ahead to November.

Wherein we find that Santorum is the “fun” choice and a few election cliches pay a visit.

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

Last night’s Huckabee Presidential Forum was different, and surprisingly substantive.

George Will’s disdain for Mitt Romney pales in comparison of his disgust at Newt Gingrich.

The Electoral College doesn’t matter in the way pundits think it does.

Rick Perry’s tax plan isn’t very impressive.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

Pundits love to speculate about new candidates entering the race and spicing things up. This will all be academic quite soon because filing dates in key states are fast approaching.

Mitt Romney is still being dogged by charges of changed positions. Now, he’s trying to spin that as a good thing.

Like clockwork, the arguments for creation of a third party are popping up again.

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

Allocating Electoral Votes by Congressional District is an idea whose time has come.

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

There was a somewhat disturbing moment during last night’s GOP Debate.

Last night’s GOP debate was a two-man affair.

Richard Cohen reports that people like Richard Cohen have lost their enthusiasm for Barack Obama.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

Environmentalists are upset by President Obama’s decision to abandon stringent new smog regulations, but he made the right decision.

The Brain Freeze Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

An amusing claim–but probably not true.

Where is the line on using the White House to further the president’s re-election effort?

The Petite Filet Mignon Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A retiree with some rather strange views hosted a Tim Pawlenty event.

Unemployment was high when Barack Obama took office and it’s gotten substantially higher. Does that mean he won’t get re-elected?

Tim Pawlenty may face trouble from a pardon he issued while he was Governor of Minnesota.

Some think that 2012 will be like 1992. However, that analogy is problematic.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

There’s still time for Sarah Palin to burnish her political reputation. But she probably won’t.

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.

The Wild Hogs Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.