Outside the Beltway

NRO’s John Derbyshire went off on a bizarre, racist, rant yesterday.

The GOP seems to be backing away from a position on same-sex marriage that was a prominent part of its message only a short time ago.

Is the now-familiar refrain that the individual mandate was originally a conservative idea really true?

Rick Santorum has bigger General Election problems than Mitt Romney it seems.

Rick Santorum’s campaign is starting to tilt at windmills.

People are seeing irony where it doesn’t exist.

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

Romney eked out a win in the Michigan primary. He’s going to have a harder time there in November.

This action raises two questions in my mind about Governor Christie.

Meet Rick Santorum, who’s apparently running for Moralist In Chief.

If one has views that one will not change even in the face of the best case scenario for new data against those views, then one cannot claim to be an analyst.

Yet more revelations about Ron Paul’s newsletters.

Members of Congress are responding to the protests against SOPA and PIPA by withdrawing their support for the bills.

Wikipedia’s English language site will be offline for 24 hours tomorrow to protest two controversial online piracy bills.

Is a vote for Gingrich (or whomever) necessarily an anti-Romney vote?

Last night was the high point of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for the Presidency.

A good night for Romney, a surprising showing for Ron Paul, and the first steps toward the end of the race for the Republican nomination.

Last night, Ron Paul decided it was a good idea to bring back the ghosts of the Vietnam War era.

There seems to be very little stopping a big night for Mitt Romney next Tuesday.

If you’re running low on cash, keeping it low-key in a state you can’t win sometimes make sense.

Not surprisingly, most of the Republican candidates for President aren’t too keen on reducing the excessive growth in Executive Branch power.

Gary Johnson’s quest is quixotic, but interesting nonetheless.

Rick Perry is seeking Court intervention to get on the Virginia ballot. He isn’t likely to get very far.

Ron Paul is doing well right now solely because of the unique characteristics of Iowa and New Hampshire.

New video plus a basic primer on Ron Paul’s newsletter situation.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

Gary Johnson is jumping ship.

Iowa Republicans fear that a Ron Paul win on Jan. 3rd will destroy the credibility of their caucuses.

Newt Gingrich has fallen into a statistical tie with Mitt Romney in the latest Gallup poll, mirroring his decline in other recent surveys.

Ron Paul is rising in Iowa, which means he will soon face the scrutiny he’s avoided so far.

Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.

Stranger things have happened.

A new ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals raises a host of questions.

Feeling abandoned by the Republican Party, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson is weighing a Libertarian Party bid for president.

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

Did you know there was another GOP debate last night? Well, you didn’t miss much.

Unnamed “sources” claim that ACORN is somehow behind Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots.

There’s no consensus for European-style social democracy or a Randian libertarian paradise.

Some on the right are giving Occupy Wall Street and The 99%’ers a second look.

A major backer of Republican and Libertarian causes is under fire.

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.