Outside the Beltway

The ignominious saga of Anthony Weiner appears to have reached its end.

Breitbart News appears to be fading in terms of readership, but the alt-right politics it represents is not going away.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

The fallout from Donald Trump’s debate performance, and his comments afterward, continues, and it’s leading some to wonder if we may finally be at the end of this ridiculous charade.

Conservatives are doing what the criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Not as much learning going on as one might like, to be honest.

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

Some Republicans seem intent on repeating the mistakes of 2008.

Mitt Romney’s Presidential rhetoric probably won’t appeal to the GOP base.

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

After years of becoming more inclusive, the Conservative Political Action Conference is closing itself off to opposing points of view.

The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.

And the KosKids have the proof!

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

Either Andrew Breitbart controls the entire media complex or Crooks & Liars jumped the gun. “Figure it out.”

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.

Sarah Palin is at the center of a divide within the GOP that could become larger even as the GOP comes closer to regaining control of Congress.

Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.

American Conservatism has changed significantly since the days of William F. Buckley Jr. One former National Review editor says that it’s changed for the worse.

The Internet has given us many good things, but it’s also led to a decline in political discourse that we’d do well to reverse before it’s too late.

There are some lessons for the blogosphere in this week’s Andrew Breitbart dust-up.

Is Andrew Breitbart the new William F. Buckley, Jr?

The I Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

JournoList may not have been a conspiracy, but it was an example of what you might call an the closing of the journalistic mind.

Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.

Conservatives have long complained about liberal media bias. But conservative media seems to be much worse.

Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.

Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

If you know where the JournoList archive is, Andrew Breitbart has got some cash for you.