Outside the Beltway

Another example of Republican foreign policy taking precedence over fiscal conservatism.

Ron Paul’s supporters are racking up delegate wins at party conventions in caucus states, but it won’t matter in the end.

A Federal Court rejects an effort to significantly expand the application of a law designed to target computer hacking.

The race will go on after Super Tuesday, but the outcome seems ineviable

Mitt Romney is likely to put considerable distance between himself and his opponents tomorrow.

Mitt Romney’s campaign gives us a lesson in how not to stage a “major” economic speech.

One analyst sees a way that the current GOP race could indeed lead to a brokered convention.

Rick Santorum swept three states that are off the media radar screen. Will it revive his campaign?

Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for the Obama 2012 campaign.

Newt Gingrich last night declared that he would abolish the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

The first Appeals Court decision on the Affordable Care Act was a victory for the government.

Desperate women are finding some horrific ways to terminate their pregnancies. Some are being arrested for it.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

A commenter asks, “Why does Wisconsin have a quorum rule if not for situations like this?”

Republicans in Idaho are talking about resurrecting the foolish and discredited idea of nullification as a weapon in the fight against ObamaCare.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

The author of AZ’s SB1070 has a new idea.

Despite yesterday’s victory for opponents of the Affordable Care Act, the prospects in the Supreme Court are not good.

Meghan McCain doesn’t know what a “blue blood” is but doesn’t want to be called one.

Recklessness.

A US military platoon was apparently able to target innocent Afghans for murder. Without senior commanders suspecting a thing.

Why would returning to the system of allowing state legislatures to choose Senators improve representation?

Lenders and Borrowers seem poised to make the same mistakes that brought about the last Housing Bubble all over again.

That attitudes towards gay marriage varies by state won’t surprise you. The degree to which it does just might.

The Iroquois lacrosse team has been caught in a classic Catch-22. The U.S. government won’t recognize their passports and they won’t use U.S. passports as a matter of principle.

How effective is Kevin Costner’s oil separator? It depends who you ask.