Outside the Beltway

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

Lindsey Graham: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

Forbes media critic Jeff Bercovici is a bit late spotting a trend.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

The latest round of the Chick-fil-A controversy is perhaps the most absurd yet.

Mitt Romney is showing signs that the negative attacks from the Obama camp are getting to him.

The Obama campaign told a few fibs in its effort to distance itself from a controversial Priorities USA ad.

Reporters covering the 2012 election are letting the campaigns control what they report to a disturbing degree.

The Romney campaign is trying to shift the narrative.

Microsoft sold its cable stake in MSNBC years ago; now, it’s ending ties with the MSNBC.com website, too.

A case study in what’s wrong with the “Breaking News” media.

As gas prices fall, the politics of fuel prices are changing.

The election is about the economy. The economy is awful. Yet the incumbent still holds a slight lead.

We don’t know what the Supreme Court will have to say about the Affordable Care Act, but their decision is already being attacked.

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

None of the cable news networks did particularly well last night.

Political disagreements about war are no reason to dismiss the sacrifices of those who have died for our country.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

Yesterday, Cory Booker committed the rookie mistake of saying what was on his mind.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

Alan Dershowitz says the prosecutor who charged George Zimmerman with second degree murder of Trayvon Martin was “irresponsible and unethical” and politically motivated.

It seems to have been a rough day for the individual mandate at the Supreme Court.

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin met on the night of February 27th. Martin died, and a firestorm has erupted.

One Goldman Sachs employee decided to quit his job in a very public manner.

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

There’s an entire industry that profits from exploiting political controversy and division. Why do we let them get away with it?

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.

Cal Thomas made a tasteless joke at Rachel Maddow’s expense. He describes the lesson in civility he learned.