Outside the Beltway

Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is expected to step down after 17 days of pro-democracy protests.

Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?

The coverage of Egypt shows an over-reliance on pundits and an under-reliance on actual experts.

Twenty-five years ago today, the American space program came crashing to Earth in a horrible accident.

Actor Alec Baldwin is among hundreds being targeted by New York City for tax evasion. Is it reasonable to have to prove where you live?

The speculation on Keith Olbermann’s abrupt departure from MSNBC’s top-rated show continues. Was he fired? Did he quit? Did the Comcast overlords push?

Once again, the frontrunners for the 2012 GOP nomination aren’t looking very good at all.

After a fairly bad 2010, Barack Obama is starting off 2011 in a very good position.

One columnist argues that Sarah Palin’s response to the Arizona shootings mark the end of whatever political future she might have had. He’s probably correct.

Note: while this post is brief, the news is of such significance that I felt it should be a headline story rather than relegated to a “quick pick”.

President Obama was correct to commend the Eagles for giving Michael Vick a chance to redeem himself.

Contrary to current conservative talking points, Net Neutrality is not a nefarious government scheme to takeover the Internet, but is aimed to address a real problem. Like most ideas that involve the government, though, it doesn’t really address the real source of the problem; not enough freedom

Sarah Palin’s reality show as as popular as the critically acclaimed drama everyone’s talking about. And that’s just half the story.

There’s plenty of good news for Barack Obama in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

A new poll about the proposals coming out of the Deficit Commission makes it clear that the American public needs to grow up.

Congress will vote on extending the Bush Tax Cuts in December, and new polling shows that the public agrees with Democrats that the cuts should be limited to the “middle class.”

The NFL’s “especially mercenary” push to extract new stadia from cities–even where the stadium’s practically brand-new.

A new survey shows that political ideology leads to different television viewing habits. This shouldn’t be surprising.

This is a strange disconnect between Sarah Palin’s popularity within the Republican Party and her popularity with the nation as a whole. One wonders if the GOP notices, or cares.

The two episode suspension of Keith Olbermann lends credence to the theory that the whole thing was a publicity stunt designed to support MSNBC’s assertion that its opinion shows are somehow more pure than the shows on FOX.

Keith Olbermann was reportedly suspended for failing to apologize for making political donations to Democratic candidates, but it really seems intended to serve to justify the illusion that MSNBC’s programming is not partisan.

They’ve won the elections, but Republicans still aren’t getting specific about exactly where they’d cut Federal spending.

Politico runs this morning with the shocking revelation that Keith Olbermann is a Democrat.

An NBC analysis shows Tea Party candidates winning only 5 of 10 Senate races and 40 of 130 House races, a success rate of only 32 percent.

Rasmussen polls were biased toward Republicans by 3 to 4 points. Rigged results? Or screening error?

George W. Bush’s new memoir reveals that he briefly considered replaced Dick Cheney as Vice-President before the 2004 elections. His decision not to do so reveals much about the relationship between Presidents and Vice-Presidents in modern American politics.

Too many copyright owners are stupidly invoking their rights to keep short clips off of YouTube and other services, losing potential customers in the process.

The GOP is headed for big gains on Tuesday. The only question now is how big they’re going to be.