Outside the Beltway

A major part of the problem with the seeming growing wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in some quarters of US politics is that it seems to equate Islam as “the enemy.” If that’s the case, then US foreign policy has some ‘splainin’ to do.

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

President Obama’s decision to speak out on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” has turned what was a hot-button cable news item into a political issue that even his fellow Democrats don’t want to deal with.

There isn’t as much GOP unity over the idea of changing America’s citizenship rules as you might think.

Conservatives seem very eager for Hillary Clinton to get back on the campaign trial, but it’s not going to happen.

The Republican Party is keeping relatively quiet on the Proposition 8 ruling. That’s a good idea.

Mitch McConnell and Al Franken provide a lesson in Senate comity.

Thanks to a united Republican Caucus, the Senate failed to take up a deeply flawed campaign finance “reform” bill.

JournoList’s archives have been making headlines at The Daily Caller, but there doesn’t seem to be any substance to the allegations of scandal.

Conservatives have long complained about liberal media bias. But conservative media seems to be much worse.

Andrew Sullivan is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.

Affluent, educated people in the DC policy community hold different views than the larger American public.

Biden got hammered by the FEC for violating campaign finance rules. A big fining deal?

The Palin and Romney camps have already started trading barbs in what could be a preview of the race for the GOP nomination in 2012.

American businesses are sitting on a big pile of cash, and giving no indication that they have any intention of spending it any time soon.

One conservative argues that the “scandal” over the New Black Panther Party’s alleged voter intimidation is a tempest in a teapot.

Let’s revisit the question of crime levels in Arizona.

Two widely-hyped reports have Wall Street firms donating less money to Democrats as payback for financial reform efforts. But a closer look reveals no such thing.

The Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas may have been influenced by questionable poll results from Research 2000.

If you know where the JournoList archive is, Andrew Breitbart has got some cash for you.

The late Senator Robert Byrd’s legacy as the master of pork barrel spending is secure.

As Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings begin, Senate Republican’s seem to have very little to hold against her.

Senator Robert Byrd has died at 92, after years of poor health.

Does it matter if the controversial McChrystal comments were “off the record” ? No, it doesn’t.

You know who would be a good replacement for him at the Right Now blog? David Petraeus.