Outside the Beltway

A victory for the GOP Establishment in Georgia.

Committing a crime is bad enough, committing a stupid crime in the dumbest way possible is orders of magnitude bad.

Shutting down rational debate one meme at a time.

Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

A commonly cited statistic in support of the “equal pay” argument does not stand up to scrutiny.

Rand Paul seems to think a 15 year old scandal is relevant to the 2016 Presidential race.

There are some signs that there may be room to strike a deal on the extension of unemployment benefits, but it’s likely to require some drama on Capitol Hill before it happens.

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

“Reality” TV star says something dumb about gay people, gets suspended, usual pointless outrage ensues.

The Fox News Channel created “War On Christmas” officially entered the absurd zone last week.

Irony is officially dead.

It’s the return of the most absurd meme of all time.

Congressional Democrats are not very pleased with the White House right now.

The news that Obama aides discussed a change to the 2012 ticket is part of the latest Halperin/Heilemann campaign history.

A new theory circulating on the right asserts that IRS targeting of Tea Party groups had an impact on the 2012 elections by diminish the Tea Party’s effectiveness. It’s mostly nonsense.

What possible value would it have almost four decades after the fact that justifies expending not inconsiderable taxpayer resources?

Why won’t the “women don’t get pregnant from rape” meme die?

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

Apparently, some people don’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

Think Progress continues a silly meme: “12 programs that Congress cares less about than averting flight delays.”

The political antics surrounding the sequestration cuts is a prime example of what’s wrong with Washington.

When someone kills himself after being bullied, we rightly condemn the bully. Should we condemn his victim, too?

Republicans continue to fight over their party’s future.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

Any chance that the Affordable Care Act will be repealed died with the re-election of Barack Obama. But, there are other fights to come.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

First in a series of posts looking at the substance of the final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign policy.

President Obama seems to have given away the store when it comes to the defense sequestration cuts.

The official narrative on the Benghazi consulate attack has changed again.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

Getting to the heart of the problem from my POV (plus historical numbers).

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

Not exactly journalism.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

Many on the right are heavily invested in the argument that current polling is intentionally biased against Mitt Romney. Their argument is not very plausible.

So, Mitt Romney opened his mouth again.