Outside the Beltway

Talks between the two Senate leaders haven’t exactly gone so well.

With more than a little hyperbole, George Will declares “Obama’s unconstitutional steps worse than Nixon’s.”

The Canal made a number of impressions.

George Will declares solitary confinement tantamount to torture.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

I just came across Peggy Noonan’s pre-election column. It is quite illustrative.

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

Naturally, most of us are asking: What does this mean for next Tuesday’s election.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

In Rick Santorum’s brand of conservatism, no smart people need apply.

Mitt Romney’s intransigence over releasing more tax returns is politically stupid.

The Salsa Dance Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Mitt Romney continues to trail the President very badly among Latino voters. That could be a big problem in November.

Not surprisingly, President Obama’s immigration announcement has been very well received among Latino voters.

The 1976 Pulitizer prize winner is phoning it in.

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.

The GOP has sold its soul.

Nominating Rick Santorum may be the best things Republicans could do to save their party, but not for the reasons Santorum thinks.

The conservative columnist argues Republicans should concentrate on winning back the Senate and stopping Obama through 2016.

Cal Thomas made a tasteless joke at Rachel Maddow’s expense. He describes the lesson in civility he learned.

We can feel that we “know” athletes, entertainers, politicians, and others that we’ve followed, rooted for, or whatnot over a period of time and feel a genuine sense of loss when they’re gone.

Not surprisingly, it’s the end of Huntsmania

Wherein we find that Santorum is the “fun” choice and a few election cliches pay a visit.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

Christiane Amanpour, who’s losing audience share for ABC’s “This Week” Sunday show, may be on her way back to CNN.

Looking at the intellectual jumble that is the mind of Newt.

George Will’s disdain for Mitt Romney pales in comparison of his disgust at Newt Gingrich.

The venerable conservative columnist once endorsed Romney as a “good option for the Right” but now calls him “the pretzel candidate”

What exactly does George Will want out of the GOP?

George Will reminds conservatives to look in the mirror if the prospect of a President Romney dismays them.

Elizabeth Warren has a deeply flawed view of our social contract.

Rick Perry isn’t as radical as some on the left are saying, but that doesn’t mean he’s any good.

In the book he released last year , Rick Perry advocated far reaching changes to the Constitution.

America’s pundits have never met anyone who didn’t think Tim Pawlenty would be a good nominee.