Outside the Beltway

Once again, Harry Reid is pursuing a far less ambitious filibuster reform package than originally threatened.

The NRA is calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing armed guards in schools while sending his own girls to school with armed guards.

Harry Reid appears to be short of the votes he needs to enact filibuster reform.

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

Of course, these voters are walled off from the process, so they don’t matter.

Recall elections in a hyper-partisan atmosphere are not a good thing.

Herman Cain response to the latest round of allegations against him leaves much to be desired.

It won’t go anywhere this year, but after 15 years someone is finally trying to repeal a bad law.

Some in Washington are claiming the intelligence community missed the warning signs of unrest in Tunisia and Egypt in what looks like little more than an effort to create scapegoats if things go wrong.

Despite federal laws banning even prison officials from bringing phones inside, tens of thousands of inmates have smartphones.

Don Surber imagines this edition of “Hardball.”

With Democrats set to maintain their majority in the Senate, some on the left are pushing for filibuster reform. However, it seems unlikely that Harry Reid has the votes to change a long-standing Senate rule.

Much to the disappointment of Ezra Klein and others, it’s unlikely that Democrats will have the votes necessary to change the filibuster when the 112th Congress convenes.