Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney has a bit of a tax return dilemma.

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.

After almost a year of campaigning, it’s finally time for someone to cast a vote.

A comment on the commentariat.

Iowa Republicans fear that a Ron Paul win on Jan. 3rd will destroy the credibility of their caucuses.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

GOP officials are reluctant to resurrect the personal attacks against the President used during the 2008 campaign.

The odds of a come back by the Texas Governor do not look good.

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

Herman Cain’s response to allegations of sexual harassment 20 years ago raise as many questions as they answer.

Rick Perry’s tax plan isn’t very impressive.

Cain (like a lot of people) is confused about what the words “conservative” and “liberal” mean.

Some on the right are giving Occupy Wall Street and The 99%’ers a second look.

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

Now that he’s a top tier candidate, it’s hard to see how Herman Cain’s tax plan can withstand serious scrutiny.

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

What was written on a rock outside of a hunting lodge in Texas 30 years ago doesn’t really matter all that much.

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

Despite all the negatives going against him, Mitt Romney may yet be the inevitable Republican nominee.

The grass is always greener on the candidate not running (or something like that).

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

The Hoover Institution’s Henry I. Miller, MD takes to National Review to take on the subject of “Gardasil and the GOP.”

Jon Huntsman is out with a tax and jobs plan that deserves a lot more attention than it’s likely to get.

In the book he released last year , Rick Perry advocated far reaching changes to the Constitution.

On reflection, the nature of Marcus Bachmann’s influence over his wife is indeed a legitimate question in a political campaign.

A space shuttle lifted off for the last time on Friday, and some people seem to think its the beginning of the end of America.

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

Mitt Romney sought to clarify his pro-life bona fides yesterday. But, will it matter?

The real story of Paul Revere’s ride has little to do with Sarah Palin’s odd tale, no matter what her defenders say.

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.

A conspiracy theorist is never troubled by facts.

A special surprise was waiting this morning for those who subscribe to Jim Geraghty’s Jolt newsletter.

Operation Odyssey Dawn has resurrected the eternal battle over what limits there are, and should be, on the President’s ability to use military force without Congressional authorization.

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.

Intervening to “help” the Libyan revolt is very tempting, but it’s a temptation we ought to resist.

Calls are coming from both sides of the aisle for the U.S. to do “something” about the situation in Libya. It would be better if we didn’t get involved.

The sitting RNC chairman is losing to a field of no-name candidates. Is he actually the favorite?