Outside the Beltway

The biggest news story of the past six weeks was something completely trivial.

Sarah Palin is smarter than Stephen Hawking — but probably not Bill Gates.

If there’s anything all sides should be able to agree on after several days of back-and-forth is that most of us didn’t really know the story.

Gil Scott-Heron, most famous “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” has died at 62.

Drinking large amounts of coffee may ward off prostate cancer.

A lot of people appear confused at to what the debt ceiling is and why it has to be raised.

Sunday’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden was the latest example of how Twitter has become the go-to source for “Breaking News.”

An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.

Is our current economic situation the result of massive government intervention? The Randians certainly think so.

Glenn Beck will leave his Fox News show in December.

The Kinetic Military Man of Action Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

Michelle Malkin is unhappy about being part of joke on Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.

How many Americans are really even paying attention to the actions in Libya?

Republican budget cuts to this point have been less than serious.

So far, the Republican House’s effort to cut back Federal spending isn’t very impressive.

The NPR vote was nothing more than political theatrics–and it violated a GOP campaign promise to boot.

Glenn Beck’s own website discovers some interesting, and ethically disturbing, editing in the latest round of video’s from “ACORN Pimp”James O’Keefe.

The Adult Swim Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

NPR is a collection of local stations, not a single station. And it’s run that way.

Of the 314 police and firefighter unions in Wisconsin, only four endorsed Scott Walker.

The situation in Bahrain continues to evolve as the state has pulled back the stick.

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

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne has succumbed to the inevitable at the ripe old age of 96.

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

Gabriellie Giffords, a three-term Arizona Congresswoman, was shot and killed today along with six others outside a campaign event in Tuscon.

The Presidency has lost the aura of mystique that used to surround it, and that’s a good thing.

Amid signs that Democrats in Congress might rebel against the tax cut deal he struck with Republicans, President Obama took to the airwaves today to defend it at the same time that his base is rebelling against it.

Washington City Paper editor Michael Schaffer has put out a satiric memo mocking the policies NPR and others have issued to reporters regarding this weekend’s Jon Stewart – Stephen Colbert rallies

Tumblr called “Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things” shows that there’s no such thing as “Muslim garb.”

The firing of Juan Williams from NPR has led many conservatives to call for an end to government subsidies. As is often the case, they’re right but for the wrong reasons.

Apparently Juan Williams is really, really, really important.

Mickey Kaus quips, “Andrew Sullivan has “small staff of four people to help him handle the blog” says NPR. Er, what’s a “big” staff for a blog? . . . In ten short years Sullivan’s created a bloated blog bureaucracy! “