Outside the Beltway

A homeowners association in Augusta, Georgia is coming under fire after denying Homes For Our Troops a permit to build a house for a paralyzed African-American veteran.

Remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the arrogant French aristocrat whose career was ended by a courageous chambermaid, shedding light on a corrupt social system? A funny thing happened on the way to the slammer.

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

A new Georgia immigration law is causing serious problems for Georgia’s farmers.

Gingrich is beyond toast.

States are racing to put obstacles in front of voters in the name of fraud prevention.

When one runs for president, it is assumed that one has a shot at one’s home state. Some of the GOP hopefuls, however, look more like unfavorite sons (and daughters).

The race for the GOP nomination is taking shape.

In addition to Alabama, we can also have Georgia on ours minds on the ongoing immigration debate.

Herman Cain is getting a lot of attention lately, but will he amount to anything?

The next shoe has dropped in the battle between campaign finance laws and the 1st Amendment.

Academic publishers want to end the Fair Use of scholarly journal articles in the classroom.

We won’t have Mike Huckabee to kick around in 2012.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

You know those creepy running shoes that look like fluorescent feet? They’re going mainstream.

So, some bright people are surprised at new polling showing that a significant minority of Southerners have not enthusiastically embraced their ancestors’ loss in the Civil War.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

The success of Christian conservatives in blocking efforts to legalize Sunday alcohol sales in Georgia demonstrates why concentrating solely on national politics is a mistake.

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.

Later this week, Clarence Thomas will have gone five years without asking a question during oral argument at the Supreme Court. Is that really a big deal?

Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.

President Obama’s approval numbers have dropped 9 points since the Egypt crisis broke out.

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

Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech was, like a political stump speech, crafted and polished over months and years of delivery.

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

Despite anecdotal evidence debunking global warming, 2010 was another record year for warm temperatures.

Anti-Immigrant groups are beginning their assault on the 14th Amendment, but don’t expect it to go anywhere.

The seemingly sensible end-of-life counseling that was originally part of the Health Care Reform Bill is making a comeback.

Red States should gain 10 seats while Blue States should lose eight.