Outside the Beltway

The crazies are this close to a complete takeover.

Yet more evidence of an unfit, unstable candidate.

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

The talk radio megastar has died, aged 70.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

Trump’s penchant for behaving more like a talk radio host than a POTUS continues unabated.

Only the best people, dontcha know.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

Michael Gerson and Amy Holmes will host a program loosely based on “Firing Line” starting in April.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

It looks like we won’t have Roy Moore to kick around anymore.

Roger Ailes’s sexual harassment has led to Fox News paying out some big dollars.

Instead of eliminating the Department of Education, Ben Carson wants to give it a new, bizarre, and dangerous mission.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now appealing to the worst aspects of economic populism on the right.

Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party supporters are being very sore losers.

Purity for profit on display.

After national attention, a North Carolina school has rescinded its ban on a 9-year-old boy’s wearing of a “girl’s” backpack.

Partisan targeting by the IRS should not be permitted to stand.

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

The Tin Cup Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

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

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

There are signs that the economy is slowing down so quickly that we may inevitably drift into recession.

Optimism sells. Someone should remind the GOP of this fact.

The GOP Establishment is in crisis, but it has nobody to blame but itself.

A study of religiosity and young adults found that those who attend college are actually less likely to experience religious decline than those who do not attend college.

Savage has offered Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the race and Beck has said that he’d vote for Ron Paul as a third party candidate rather than supporting the former Speaker.

More on Texas and jobs.

Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?

Beck heads to the internet.

Palin has some odd things to say about US history.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

Will the successful action against Osama bin Laden cause people on the right to stop believing crazy things about the President? Don’t count on it.

A conspiracy theorist is never troubled by facts.

Glenn Beck will leave his Fox News show in December.