Outside the Beltway

As the night of the State Of The Union Address approaches, the silliness in Washington has been taken up a notch.

After a fairly bad 2010, Barack Obama is starting off 2011 in a very good position.

In a move that surprises nobody, the House voted today to repeal last year’s health care reform law. Now it goes to the Senate where it will die.

An obscure Arizona law has raised questions over whether Congressman Gabrielle Giffords could lose her seat if she is disabled for an extended period.

Sarah Palin was “interviewed” by Sean Hannity last night. I doubt she helped herself.

NYT public editor Arthur Brisbane explains how it came to pass that his paper reported as fact the erroneous news that Gabrielle Giffords had been killed.

Factions on the right and left continue to charge one another with trying to politicize the Tucson murders. They’re now nitpicking the memorial service.

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.

The political firestorm that has erupted in the wake of the shootings in Arizona is drifting, inevitably, into calls for more government control over the content of speech.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

Over the past two days, Sarah Palin has become the center of the media firestorm over the tragic shootings in Arizona, she doesn’t belong there.

The tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Arizona has started another debate about political rhetoric. It’s a stupid debate, and it’s utterly pointless.

Gabriellie Giffords, a three-term Arizona Congresswoman, was shot and killed today along with six others outside a campaign event in Tuscon.

A tragedy this afternoon in Tuscon

Politico runs this morning with the shocking revelation that Keith Olbermann is a Democrat.