Outside the Beltway

While it’s always dangerous to extrapolate too much from high profile cases to the system as a whole, the strange case of Dominque Strauss-Kahn practically invites it.

Recent polls seem to indicate a shift in public opinion in a more libertarian direction.

Paul Krugman thinks liberals understand conservatives but not vice versa. He’s half right.

Government is inextricably linked to the marriage business.

WaPo’s Jackson Diehl asks, “Will the GOP nominate a dove?”

The debate format was the biggest loser last night, but there were a few memorable moments in New Hampshire.

We need to stop talking as if the Medicare debate is a question of the Ryan Plan v. the Status Quo.

A profile of George Mason economist and blogger Tyler Cowen offers this amusing description: “Cowen, 49, has round features, a hesitant posture, and an unconcerned haircut.”

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants a full debate on the PATRIOT Act. What’s Congress so afraid of?

The GOP doesn’t have a charismatic superstar waiting in the wings. That’s okay.

With the 2012 GOP field looking very underwhelming, GOP insiders are looking toward Indianapolis for a savior.

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

For as long as the notion of individual rights has existed, one of them has been the sanctity one’s home. As of Thursday, that’s no longer true in Indiana.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who will enter the Presidential race tomorrow, says he wouldn’t have tried to have Osama bin Laden killed.

An attempt at explaining where I am coming from on in the health care discussion.

If you look at the Tea Party’s impact on state politics, you see it really isn’t much different from the Religious Right.

Roger Ebert lays the smack down on the Atlas Shrugged film — but not for the reasons you’d think.

Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson is running for president.

The race for the 2012 Republican nomination is missing the one thing that GOP nomination battles have almost always had, a frontrunner.

The antiwar movement has been strangely silent despite the fact that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t really changed that much since Barack Obama became President.

It’s institutions of government – not its size – that matter when it comes to how good a job the government does.

Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.

For many Ph.Ds, the Ed.D. represents the ticket to the administrative high life, the white flag to academic scholarship, and the tramp stamp of the compromising careerist.

Ron Paul has won the CPAC straw poll for a second straight year. But YAF has voted him off its board over his opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The new Chairman of the American Conservative Union seems to want to mend fences with social conservatives, even if that means throwing new friends under the bus.

The media are wildly exaggerating the heckling at a gathering of conservatives.

Ron Paul is poised to win the CPAC Straw Poll. So what?

On the eve of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, another shot has been fired by those boycotting the meeting due to the presence of a gay conservative group.

Taking a dive into Mark Levin’s view of Federalism.

They’re from the government, and they’re here to take that tasty snack out of your hands.

Examining Levin’s examination of the Constitution, jurisprudence, and property rights.

In response to charges that it was attempting restrict abortion access beyond the boundaries of the Hyde Amendment, the GOP has agreed to drop the phrase “forcible rape” from its abortion bill.

The GOP is facing a battle between its fiscal conservatism and i’s military adventurism.