Outside the Beltway

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

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

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

Picking the wrong target.

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

The jobs picture–and thus the overall economic forecast–becomes much gloomier with the release of the March Labor report.

The race is over, Rick Santorum just won’t admit it.

A Reserve Specialist who endorsed Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy in uniform will only be reprimanded, not court martialed.

The estimated number of U.S. autistic kids has skyrocketed by 78% since 2000, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This morning, the Justices pondered the fate of the PPACA if they strike down the individual mandate.

It seems to have been a rough day for the individual mandate at the Supreme Court.

Mitt Romney called Russia our “number one geopolitical foe.” Is he right?

Looking also at Zimmerman’s 911 call and who pursued whom.

Yesterday, the campaign silly season got particularly silly.

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

Good Journalism?

One Goldman Sachs employee decided to quit his job in a very public manner.

Rush Limbaugh may be a jerk, but he has a right to be a jerk.

The GOP Establishment is in crisis, but it has nobody to blame but itself.

The future of the Republican race in 2012 is in the balance in the Wolverine State.

In order to succeed on the right today, you have to do more than just say the President is wrong. You have to say that he’s evil.

Last night’s debate may have been the last one. It was also the least informative.

Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik of Reuters have become the latest journalists to die reporting on the massacres in Syria.

It’s looking increasingly unlikely that anyone will have the race for the nomination wrapped up any time soon.

Is Rick Santorum’s momentum unstoppable?

Once again, the face of the Republican race has changed.

Once again, a government entity thinks the average person is too dumb to take care of themselves.

Will the Obama Administration’s decision on contraceptive coverage by the Catholic Church have an impact in November?

Last night, we saw the beginning of the end of the Newt Gingrich campaign whether he realizes it or not.