Outside the Beltway

AL takes AZ’s approach and goes a few steps beyond.

The housing market has changed over the past five years, and that’s a good thing.

And even more bad news.

All in all, not looking like it will be a fun summer.

Real Estate prices continue to fall, but where are the buyers? Maybe they’re acting sane this time.

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

Three years later, there are no signs that the real estate market is anywhere close to recovering.

An increasing number of bright observers are questioning the notion that everyone needs to go to college.

Is our current economic situation the result of massive government intervention? The Randians certainly think so.

The American people have no idea what’s really in the Federal Budget, which makes any discussion about what to cut virtually impossible.

Is Saudi Arabia the next domino to fall in the Middle East? The Royal family is hoping that money will be enough to make sure that doesn’t happen.

The U.S. housing market is a long way from the glory days of the housing bubble, and that’s a good thing.

The continuing chaos in Libya could have a serious impact on the U.S. economy, especially if it spreads to other oil producing nations.

The debate over Senator Rand Paul’s proposed $500 billion spending cut plan has focused almost exclusively on one issue, and one nation.

The situation in Egypt is going from bad to worse.

The events in Egypt have led some to ask if the mere act of cutting off access to the Internet is, in itself, an human rights violation.

Should we spread liberal democracy by force? If necessary!

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

Some people in the D.C. area are worried that the Federal spending gravy train may be coming to an end. They should be.

Wealthy Manhattanites are clamoring for a new status symbol: their own washer and dryer!

The most walkable cities in America are also the most successful.

Have credit cards and ATMs eliminated the value of large currency zones?

As things stand right now, the dynamics don’t look good for President Obama in 2012

The finger-pointing about the global economy continues.

Less than expulsion, but more than a slap on the wrist. The House Ethics Committee recommends that New York Congressman be censured for cheating on his taxes and breaking the rules of Congress.

Food prices are rising in China. For us higher food prices mean we get fat a little more slowly; for a poor Chinese family it means starvation stalks a little closer.

Is the current media environment a problem for proper political discourse?

The Federal Reserve is injecting $ 600,000,000,000 into the economy, primarily in the hope that it will boost stock prices and, in turn, the economy. It might work, but if it doesn’t the consequences could be severe.

Democrats won the governorship, all 10 House seats, and all statewide races in Massachusetts.

Republicans are promising two years of gridlock and obstructionism if they take control of Congress, but is that really what the people who are likely to vote for them next week really want?

Instead of decades-old retreads like talking about abolishing the Department of Education, it would be nice if we had a real debate about the fiscal circumstances in the country.

While the displacement of poor blacks from their neighborhoods by affluent whites may be lamentable, it’s better than the alternatives.

Banks are faced with a huge number of foreclosures and that resources they’ve allocated towards handling them was woefully inadequate.

Greg Mankiw notes a curious revisionism in Barney Frank’s pronouncements on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.

Western athletes who’ve complained about the conditions at the Commonwealth Games are coming in for a firestorm of criticism.

Apparently, riding in a gilded carriage with footmen does not preclude one from seeking welfare funds in the United Kingdom.

David Brooks blames our economic woes on a change from a culture that valued productive work to one of gentility. And Bill Cosby.

If there’s an area where our attitudes and behaviors have changed more radically in my lifetime than gender equality, I can’t think of it.