Outside the Beltway

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.

Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against The New York Times suffers a significant setback.

Sarah Palin has filed a defamation suit against The New York Times alleging defamation in an Editorial linking her to the January 2011 shooting of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. From the facts alleged, she appears to have a good case.

Blaming political opponents for criminal acts they clearly didn’t commit or advocate isn’t a political argument, it’s demagoguery.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.

Keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people while protecting individual liberty isn’t easy.

The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.

Once again, the usual suspects are exploiting tragedy for political purposes.

Raw Story tweeted “Republicans in Rep. Giffords’ district plan to raffle off the same type of gun Jared Loughner used. ” This links to their own story demonstrating that they’re doing no such thing.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

Sarah Palin released a statement today about the Arizona shootings and the debate that has followed. It’s unlikely to help her.

Jared Loughner could have possibly been stopped, and treated, if someone had said something.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

We really need a better understanding of mental health disorders in this county, and events like those over the weekend underscore this fact.

There’s a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn’t the one the media is talking about.

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.

Should we limit the number of rounds guns can hold in order to minimize shooting sprees?

Over the past two days, Sarah Palin has become the center of the media firestorm over the tragic shootings in Arizona, she doesn’t belong there.

The debate over heated political rhetoric has now led one Pennsylvania Congressman to suggest that some speech should be banned. This must stop now.

Palin’s infamous “target” poster recycles a theme used by both parties over the years.