Outside the Beltway

As vehicles become more fuel efficient, we’re buying bigger ones.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.

Most don’t even know it passed!

The race is returning to expectation.

Hope is not a COA.

The most consumer-visible commodity is down for the 67th consecutive day.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

The U.S. average is under $4 for the first time in months.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

Approval is down (again).

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

With record-low poll numbers, the grass roots wants someone new on the ticket next time.

They went down 3 cents a gallon yesterday and have dropped 24 days straight.

The pressure and expectations of a king, but with considerably less power.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

It’s a global commodity.

They should panic, right?

it likely won’t do much.

From the Cliché File.

He’s underwater and not going to take it anymore.

A recurring genre about presidents.

The NYT and CA41 and yet another example of telling the wrong story.

Four dollars and change at the pump.
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up.

Crises tend to be distracting.

The polls do not bode well for Democrats.

A potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

She is running to finish out Don Young’s term in Congress.

Yet another case where good politics yields bad policy.

He’s tanned. He’s rested. Is he ready?

Three dollars and change at the pump. The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up.

It turns out “the economy” isn’t just one thing.

Some context.

The President’s approval has plummeted, largely because of factors outside his control.

Democrats and Independents are losing their enthusiasm. But some perspective is needed.

The Southeast has been hit especially hard.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.

August’s Jobs Report came in below expectations.

Public defenders in New Mexico are overworked, underfunded, and outmatched, but then that’s true pretty much everywhere in the country.

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

February’s Jobs Report was relatively positive, but there are still shadows hovering over the economy as we head further into the year.

The State Of The Union Address was more of the same, and the same will be true of Washington going forward.

Strong jobs growth in November means that 2014 is already the best year for jobs growth since 1999.

Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.