Outside the Beltway

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

The Maryland Terrapins upset the Miami Hurricanes 32-24 last night in college football’s opening weekend. But all anyone is talking about is the ugly uniforms.

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

The connections between the White House and failed solar energy company Solyndra deepen.

The failure of a solar energy firm in California is raising questions about a centerpiece of the Administration’s economic policy.

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

Now that America’s political leadership have probably averted a self-inflicted global economic calamity, it’s time to assess the winners and losers.

Does the 10th Amendment contain the answer to the same-sex marriage debate? Not really.

If a crisis over the national debt is averted, Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn may be the unlikely hero.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

The Gang of Six is back together. And they have a plan.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

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

Sunday afternoon musings on an electoral college sweeps.

Michele Bachmann is not Sarah Palin.

Upwards of 77,000 federal employees make more than the governors of the states in which they live, the Congressional Research Service reports.

Should we worry about the deficit when funding “disaster relief”? Should we be funding “disaster relief” at all?

Congress is coming back to Washington and gas prices continue to rise. Expect a lot of demagoguery, but very little in the way of solutions.

If you look at the Tea Party’s impact on state politics, you see it really isn’t much different from the Religious Right.

The last American veteran of a conflict which ended nearly a century ago has died.

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

Players have taken control of the NBA from the owners. That’s bad for fans. But probably a good thing.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

The home mortgage interest deduction benefits Democrat-voting states most! Is the fix in?

As the night of the State Of The Union Address approaches, the silliness in Washington has been taken up a notch.

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

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

The tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Arizona has started another debate about political rhetoric. It’s a stupid debate, and it’s utterly pointless.

Anti-Immigrant groups are beginning their assault on the 14th Amendment, but don’t expect it to go anywhere.

The author of AZ’s SB1070 has a new idea.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

Fed examiners made a bank take down a “Merry Christmas, God With Us” sign. Then the “system” kicked in.

Israelis and Palestinians don’t agree on much these days, but they do agree that Barack Obama hasn’t helped the peace process at all since coming to office.

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

A new Oklahoma law that bans Sharia law from being enforced in state courts may have some very unintended consequences.