Outside the Beltway

George Will reminds conservatives to look in the mirror if the prospect of a President Romney dismays them.

Have Republicans been co-opted by the Big Government they claim to hate?

The Supreme Court is on track to issue its most anticipated ruling in years right in the middle a Presidential campaign.

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.

Under new policies, deportation efforts will be concentrated on people who pose a threat to society. It’s a sensible policy, so of course it’s being denounced.

A few liberal law professors say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should resign now so President Obama can pick her successor.

A few Republicans have picked up on John McCain’s criticism of critics of the Libya mission as being “isolationist.”

The debate format was the biggest loser last night, but there were a few memorable moments in New Hampshire.

The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.

So, Anthony Weiner is a lying dick. Does it matter?

After a week of denial, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner admitted today that he had engaged in online relationships with several women.

Obama brings rapid response, blogger “hand holding” in-house.

Another celebrity trial shines a light on our bizarre justice system.

Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.

The duty to defend “hateful, extremely disrespectful, and enormously intolerant” expression.

The federal government has spent seven years and some six million dollars pursuing Barry Bonds. Why?

Lawyers in US court case spent ten pages of transcript arguing what a photocopier is. “Do you have machines where I can put in a paper document, push a button or two, and out will come copies of that paper document, also on paper?”

President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of the Defense Of Marriage Act on appeal was a proper and appropriate exercise of his authority as President Of The United States.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell says he won’t comply with any of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but his decision seems to rest of precarious legal ground.

Arizona looks to be the latest state to try to revive the discredited doctrine of nullification.

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?

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

Republicans in Idaho are talking about resurrecting the foolish and discredited idea of nullification as a weapon in the fight against ObamaCare.

Cory Booker, Michael Bloomberg, and Chris Christie have been in the news this week due to the political fallout over their handling of the East Coast blizzard.

150 years ago today a group of men gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and made one of the gravest mistakes in American history. They should not be honored for it.

Further thoughts on a rather radical proposed Amendment to the Constitution, prompted by a link from Instapundit.

Okahoma’s James Inhofe has a message for the Tea Party movement — don’t be fooled by the “War On Earmarks.”

If the polling is anywhere close to accurate, a Republican wave will come crashing down today, repudiating the first two years of the Obama administration. What does it mean?

A Vanity Fair piece imagines what John Lennon’s life would have been like had he survived an assassin’s bullet.

Many commenters on civil-military relations change their tune according to whose ox is gored.

New reports indicate that New Orleans Police were given orders to shoot looters amid the chaos after Hurricane Katrina hit the city. Fortunately, that never happened.

Roger Clemens is probably regretting today the decision to testify before a Congressional committee about steroids back in 2008.

Twenty percent of Americans still believe that Barack Obama is Muslim. Not only is it wrong, it says something rather disturbing about our country.

Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.