Outside the Beltway

If a crisis over the national debt is averted, Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn may be the unlikely hero.

David Brooks is mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore.

The participants in the debt negotiations are being led by constituencies that have little interest in compromise.

There’s apparently a new proposal on the table at the debt negotiations, and it looks very interesting.

What exactly is the GOP trying to accomplish in the debt ceiling negotiations?

The Ronald Reagan that Republicans lionize is very different from the one who actually served as 40th President of the United States.

Talks about a deal to raise the debt ceiling seem pretty close to collapse now that there are no Republicans involved.

Grover Norquist believes ending government handouts must be offset by tax cuts.

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

America’s foremost tax foe has weighed in on the Afghanistan War debate.

As they did last year, several top social conservative activist groups are boycotting next year’s Conservative Political Action Conference over the extension of an invitation to a gay conservative group, and nobody seems to care that they won’t be there.

Former Senator Alan Simpson is fighting back against the critics on the left and the right who are shooting down the Deficit Commission’s plan before it’s even been released.

The immediate reactions from left and right to the proposals from the Chairmen of the Debt Commission are about what you’d expect.

Taxpayer “watchdog” groups are urging House Republicans to cut Congressional pay as an act of symbolism. It’s symbolism all right, pointless symbolism.

If Sarah Palin isn’t running for President, why is she comparing herself to Ronald Reagan ?

Ann Coulter has been dis-invited from a World Net Daily conference for her decision to speak at a convention sponsored by a gay conservative group.