Outside the Beltway

The Etch A Sketch meme isn’t nearly as powerful as those pushing it believe it to be.

Yesterday, Rick Santorum started to demonstrate that his campaign has run out of a logical reason to exist.

Yesterday, the campaign silly season got particularly silly.

No, the Obama Administration is not plotting to nationalize the economy in the name of some “national emergency.”

Some Republicans seem intent on repeating the mistakes of 2008.

Republicans continue to harp on the fact that the President uses a TelePrompter.

If you listen to the punditocracy, you’d think that there’s actually a doubt as to who the GOP nominee will be.

Disturbingly large percentages of Republicans still don’t think the President was born here.

Is it fair to single out the most powerful man in radio’s commentary for attention?

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of religion in public life are built on lies about American history.

Rick Santorum would do well to listen to the words of the last Catholic to be President of the United States.

In order to succeed on the right today, you have to do more than just say the President is wrong. You have to say that he’s evil.

An odd meme’s developing that Mitt Romney’s campaign is in financial trouble.

The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.

US society cannot so easily be placed into a maker/taker divide

Is the presumptive Republican nominee too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans?

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around anymore.

Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.

If the Right clings to the belief that President Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil, it will likely end up handing the election to him.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

A Washington Post fact check calls this “true but false.”

The US intelligence community has more information at its disposal than ever. Unfortunately, it can’t efficiently process it and make the necessary connections.

The GOP is at a distinct disadvantage in the political fight over President Obama’s Recess Appointment of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB.

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

The Republican candidates for President are blurring what should be a pretty clear line.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

Don’t believe the fear mongering about the coming decreases in the growth of defense spending.

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

Grover Norquist has become the target of blame for problems that are far more deep than just one man.

Another meme debunked, plus some thoughts on policy.

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

Another bad meme from the GOP.

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

President Obama is being attacking from the right for following through on a policy decision made by his Republican predecessor.

Barack Obama uses a teleprompter. This is not a big deal.

A cute protest sign based on a blog quip has created a minor internet sensation.

Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.

Rick Perry seems to be picking up where Sarah Palin left off.

Rick Perry’s campaign isn’t dead by any means, but he needs to turn things around soon.

American has real economic and social problems. But the solution in on Capitol Hill, not Wall Street.

Rick Perry has serious problems with what people think about his immigration position.

Even those sympathetic to the causes are frustrated with the squalor and other negative externalities of the protests.