Outside the Beltway

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

It’s no wonder partisans can’t agree with each other when they can’t even agree what the facts are.

Mitt Romney won the debate last night, but it’s not at all clear that this will matter at all.

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.

There’s no doubt about it, our political culture is pretty horrible.

Public distrust of the media is at an all-time high. It’s easy to see why.

The Occupy movement began one year ago today. It’s no surprise that it ended up being a failure.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

Tom Brokaw was rushed to the hospital after feeling light-headed on “Morning Joe.”

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.

The OMGWTFBBQ Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

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.

The Geek Squad Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

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.