Outside the Beltway

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

One of Washington’s giants has passed away.

After many ballyhooed glitches, 7 million Americans have signed up for ObamaCare. Now what?

Republicans have some good ideas about overhauling how they pick a nominee. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how most of them can be enforced.

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

Accusations of blame are already being tossed around about why Republicans lost in Virginia, and they mirror a broader debate in the Republican Party nationally.

With debate season over, it’s looking less and less likely that Virginia Republicans will be able to hold back the Democrats on November 5th.

Two veteran reporters, including the dean of the Virginia press corps, have been fired by the AP after falsely reporting that Terry McAuliffe lied to federal authorities.

The Virginia Governor’s race may be slipping too far for Republicans to pull off a victory.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

President Obama has appointed a lot of donor’s and supporters to plumb Ambassadorial slots. That’s not at all unusual.

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?

Obama’s fundraising team helped raise half a million dollars for Hillary Clinton.

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

POLITICO has a new eBook on the Obama campaign and wants you to buy it.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

The Obama campaign is challenging an Ohio law that gives members of the military three extra days to vote. They have a very persuasive argument.

Virginia could be the state that decides who controls the United States Government.

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Picking the wrong target.

Yesterday, the campaign silly season got particularly silly.

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

Can anyone bring the primary debate schedule under control?

Mitt Romney’s first television ad is built around a Barack Obama quote that has been cropped so that he’s saying the opposite of what he actually said.

The Twitterverse and the Democratic National Committee are having a field day with Mitt Romney’s declaration that “Corporations are people, my friend.”

Should President Obama call Congress back into session? Not if there’s nothing to do he shouldn’t.

The Obama campaign is stressing that 98 percent of its donations were from little guys contributing $250 or less. But 40 percent of the money came from a handful of major donors.