Outside the Beltway

Just three weeks after their home was hit by a devastating storm, Donald Trump is attacking Puerto Ricans for not recovering from the storm sooner.

President Obama is being criticized for remaining on vacation while Louisiana deals with historic flooding.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

Democrat John Bel Edwards scored an easy victory over Senator David Vitter last night in Louisiana, and Vitter announced that he’d be leaving the Senate after his term is up.

Time to “pivot to the economy” again.

The Oval Office Address, once a common tool of the Presidency, has been in declining use of late.

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

There are some glaring omissions from a recent list of television’s “most powerful” moments.

One of these people will be the 2012 Republican nominee for President no matter how much you’d like to dream otherwise.

Environmentalists are upset by President Obama’s decision to abandon stringent new smog regulations, but he made the right decision.

The First Lady takes a lot of days off from her unpaid “job.”

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.

More on that freeloader problem (today with less snark).

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)

The most likely cuts in federal spending are likely to actually increase the deficit over time.

House Republicans want to do away with the increasing number of “czars” in the White House.

He’s the darkest of dark horses right now, but Gary Johnson stands as the heir apparent to Ron Paul’s surprisingly energetic 2008 run for the GOP nomination.

Venezuela have reached a series of agreement on energy. Should the US be concerned?

It’s beginning to look like initial reports that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill had been “cleaned up” may not be true after all.

In arguing against lifting liability caps on offshore drilling, the Wall Street Journal is arguing against both moral responsibility and the free market.

Now that the flood of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig has been staunched, some are arguing that the prophesied environmental catastrophe was greatly overblown.

800,000 gallons of oil have leaked from a pipeline into a creek that flows into the Kalamazoo River. BP is not involved.

Barack Obama was a big hit on college campuses in 2008. Two years later, those same young voters seem to be having second thoughts.

How do President Obama’s accomplishments stack up from a liberal standpoint?

As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.

The Department of the Interior has, unwisely and unnecessarily, reimposed the ban on deep water offshore drilling.

The latest poll trends have pollster Charlie Cook thinking that the Democrats could be in for a very bad trouncing on Election Day.

So much for the Obama Administration’s “Summer of Recovery.”

Contrary to popular belief, Adolf Hitler didn’t come to power by democratic means or because of his ability to whip the public into a frenzy.