Outside the Beltway

Rick Perry has stumbled out of the gate, but he’ll be in this race for the long haul

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?

Workers account for 80% of the Postal Service budget vs. 53% at UPS and 32% at FedEx.

Contrary to myth, the college classroom is a rapidly evolving place.

Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

Political journalists aren’t like you and me. Well, you, anyway.

Many of the clergy in Alabama are not happy with the state’s new immigration law.

So, you want a career in foreign policy field and are weighing your options….

We have a deal in Washington. Now, the leadership just has to make sure it can pass Congress.

Let’s look at the actual proposal.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

Tennis’ most aristocratic championship is also its most democratic.

Alabama youth choir gets hand slapped for impromptu rendition of the national anthem.

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

Sunday afternoon musings on an electoral college sweeps.

Wearing a wire can come back to bite you.

In addition to Alabama, we can also have Georgia on ours minds on the ongoing immigration debate.

AL takes AZ’s approach and goes a few steps beyond.

A new study finds that college tuition costs could be cut in half if lazy professors got off their butts.

Two things: 1) one of the best things I have seen on this topic and 2) and a re-iteration on what I think is the broader issue here.

Cynthia Tucker regrets her support for majority-minority districts.

Should we worry about the deficit when funding “disaster relief”? Should we be funding “disaster relief” at all?

Amy Myers, the sophomore who challenged Michele Bachmann to a debate on the Constitution, has been the target of vile comments on the Internet.

Romney wants to make a federalism based argument for why his MA health care bill is good, while the PPACA is tyrannical. However, just saying that is not an argument.

Do people really understand the taxes we pay?

Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg is catching some flak for complaining that he’s “struggling like everyone else” despite a net worth in the millions.

At least 128 are dead, with the toll expected to rise, in the flurry of tornadoes that hit Alabama yesterday.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

More on that freeloader problem (today with less snark).

Republican budget cuts to this point have been less than serious.

An Alabama legislator wants to ban the use of Islamic law in the state’s courts — just in case Muslims take over.

The ongoing saga of piracy off the coast of Somali is about to get Americans’ attention again, as a yacht containing four U.S. citizens has been hijacked.

The Toomer’s Corner trees were poisoned by a rabid Alabama fan.

Later this week, Clarence Thomas will have gone five years without asking a question during oral argument at the Supreme Court. Is that really a big deal?