Outside the Beltway

Is Rick Santorum’s momentum unstoppable?

Once again, the face of the Republican race has changed.

If the reaction at this year’s CPAC is any indication, Mitt Romney still has some work to do to seal up his party’s base.

A new poll shows Santorum surging ahead of Mitt Romney nationally

Are the American people tuning out of politics altogether?

One analyst sees a way that the current GOP race could indeed lead to a brokered convention.

Rick Santorum swept three states that are off the media radar screen. Will it revive his campaign?

Could things possibly get worse on Capitol Hill? Grover Norquist seems to relish the possibility.

A far-reaching decision from the Supreme Court protecting religious liberty.

So, what’s next?

Newt Gingrich gets his Civil War history very wrong.

Proving yet again that the plural of anecdote is not data.

Mitt Romney’s campaign seems have Newt Gingrich targeted.

Are America’s political parties become irrelevant?

Yet again, a state seeks to buck the primary calendar (and yet again it provides a chance to wonder why we have the nomination system we have).

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

As Hurricane Irene makes its way up the East Coast, Ron Paul says disaster relief isn’t a job for the Federal Government.

Once again, the primary scheduling race is getting ridiculous.

Perhaps understandably, the Anthony Weiner incident seems to have caused some politicians to rethink their Twitter strategy.

Two major American military installations are in serious danger. From rising water, not terrorist attacks.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.

The last American veteran of a conflict which ended nearly a century ago has died.

Neither side is covering themselves in glory in the battle over the Badger State budget.

Politico (Jay Carney got $270K from Time magazine after leaving) has uncovered a major payola scandal. Or is hyping a complete non-story.

Four Senators who just happen to be up for re-election next year are silently looking for alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.

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

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

Just over 100 years after his death, Mark Twain’s two greatest novels are once again the subject of controversy.