Outside the Beltway

The Obama Administration’s response to the protests in the Muslim world has been entirely wrongheaded.

One year ago, the U.S. lost it’s AAA credit rating with S&P. There doesn’t appear to have been any real impact from that decision.

There are some glaring omissions from a recent list of television’s “most powerful” moments.

Rising fuel prices are starting to hurt the President in the polls, but it’s unclear what that means for November.

Another good monthly jobs report

A Northeastern Republican announces retirement. And GOP hopes for control of the Senate in 2013 become more tenuous.

Apparently, people who work for the government are surfing the World Wide Web.

Last night, most of the leading Republican candidates for President acted as if Europe was on another planet.

Better or worse?

Contrary to what Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman argue today, compassion does not require one to support government social welfare programs.

Details of the President’s jobs plan are starting to leak out, and they’re not looking impressive.

The Lawn Ornament Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Repeating the “destruction creates wealth” fallacy every time there’s a natural disaster doesn’t make it any less of a fallacy.

With a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast, the House Majority Leader is engaged in an accounting exercise.

The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.

Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.

Either a bunch of bloggers or one of the world’s smartest economists doesn’t understand economics.

When an earthquake hits, people flood the internet with posts about it–some within 20 or 30 seconds.

The signs are not good.

Now that America’s political leadership have probably averted a self-inflicted global economic calamity, it’s time to assess the winners and losers.

It isn’t just President Obama who should be worried about the economy next year.

Judging by the June jobs report, there’s no economic recovery coming in the near future.

After several months where it seemed like things were turning around, the May jobs report was depressingly bad.

A bizarre legal case from Italy.

More on that freeloader problem (today with less snark).

Why did then-Governor Mike Huckabee’s office destroy all its office hard drives shortly before leaving office?

Natural disasters in Japan have lessened the supply of pigments necessary to make black paint.

Nuclear power remains far safer than coal. The awful events in Fukushima must not spook governments outlawing atomic energy.

Earth’s moon will seem bigger Saturday night than it has since 1993. It’ll still be the same size as usual, however.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is the latest idiot celebrity to damage their career on Twitter.

Status report on the damage in Japan.

Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)

Can the massive destruction caused by the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns stimulate the economy?