Outside the Beltway

Not exactly journalism.

Public distrust of the media is at an all-time high. It’s easy to see why.

The recent;y concluded party conventions are further evidence that the events have largely outlived their usefulness.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.

Mitt Romney’s speech last night was the best he’s ever given, but it’s impact may have been undercut but several odd production decisions that preceded it.

Maybe the real problem this year isn’t that the campaign is unduly nasty, but that it’s incredibly petty.

The quadrennial political conventions have become, long, boring, tedious, and largely predetermined. It’s time to shake things up by making them a lot shorter.

Because of a culture where being first is more important than being right, ABC News made a few mistakes in its Friday morning coverage of the Colorado shootings.

Once again, the usual suspects are exploiting tragedy for political purposes.

Mitt Romney has had a rough two weeks, but Barack Obama has to deal with a bad economy.

The Romney campaign went on television to address the Bain issue, but again they just seem to have muddied the water.

Are infrastructure projects the key to turning around the economy? Not really.

None of the cable news networks did particularly well last night.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case takes yet another bizarre turn.

Once again, the punditocracy seems to have misread the voting public.

It’s time to let the legal system do its job.

The Etch A Sketch meme isn’t nearly as powerful as those pushing it believe it to be.

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin met on the night of February 27th. Martin died, and a firestorm has erupted.

If you listen to the punditocracy, you’d think that there’s actually a doubt as to who the GOP nominee will be.

There’s an entire industry that profits from exploiting political controversy and division. Why do we let them get away with it?

This is no way to pick a Presidential Nominee.

Are the American people tuning out of politics altogether?

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

Are the Republicans the party of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich? Or a viable contender for the White House?

After almost a year of campaigning, it’s finally time for someone to cast a vote.

What does the Cain candidacy say about the contemporary GOP?

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

What do this people want? Can’t you read the signs?

Barack Obama uses a teleprompter. This is not a big deal.

Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.

Despite what the media keeps saying, there’s no real evidence that GOP voters are dissatisfied with the 2012 field.

Are we placing far too much importance on how someone does in a two hour so-called “debate”?

If you’re interested in knowing how the candidates would handle a foreign policy crisis, last night’s debate was mostly unhelpful.

Why talk to boring experts when you can, instead, air some more bickering?