Outside the Beltway

The Occupy movement is starting to face the reality that they really aren’t engaging in protected speech.

A cynical racial play by Herman Cain.

A righteous movement risks derailment by a handful of thugs and reprobates.

The story of Perry’s hunting lodge probably doesn’t tell us that much about Perry, but it is still telling.

Is money the only thing that matters in post-Citizens United American politics?

Judging them by their own manifesto, the Occupy Wall Street protesters are pretty silly people.

Why does what was painted on a rock 30-odd years ago matter today?

The bloom is off the rose for some of the President’s most ardent 2008 supporters.

Reports are coming out of Libya that paint the Libyan rebels in a very unkind light.

Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

Money isn’t the only benefit some receive for their work.

Many of the clergy in Alabama are not happy with the state’s new immigration law.

Cory Maye has spent ten years on death row after a trial tainted by racism and corruption. In a few days, he will be free.

A homeowners association in Augusta, Georgia is coming under fire after denying Homes For Our Troops a permit to build a house for a paralyzed African-American veteran.

AL takes AZ’s approach and goes a few steps beyond.

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

Birtherism dies a quick death–and with it the notion that Obama’s opponents are motivated purely by race.

Singing the 1974 Carl Douglas classic “Kung Fu Fighting” can get you arrested in England.

So, some bright people are surprised at new polling showing that a significant minority of Southerners have not enthusiastically embraced their ancestors’ loss in the Civil War.

With all the birther talk these days, it’s probably time to question whether we even need the “natural born citizen” rule anymore.

An op-ed by a Hao Leifeng in China’s Global Times argues that “Actor Charlie Sheen is a classic example of the difference in Western and Eastern values and norms.”

A day after apologizing for an odd comment about the President’s upbringing, Mike Huckabee now feeds into the conservative myth that Barack Obama isn’t a real American.

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

Comedienne Joan Rivers tells Howard Stern why she ditched a joke calling Michelle Obama “Backie O.”

It’s Lee-Jackson Day again in Virginia, and, once again, I find myself wondering why the South continues to honor a dishonorable legacy.

Just over 100 years after his death, Mark Twain’s two greatest novels are once again the subject of controversy.

Hawaii’s new Governor is taking on the Birther myth.

Former Senator Alan Simpson is fighting back against the critics on the left and the right who are shooting down the Deficit Commission’s plan before it’s even been released.

Rush Limbaugh is apparently not impressed with Barack Obama’s presidency. That doesn’t make him a racist.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson takes a look at the Tea Party movement and claims to find racism.

Is the public anger at Obama really just papered over racism?

A poster at RedState demonstrates how not to approach the issue of race in politics.

Thanks mostly to Virginia Thomas’s decision to place an early Saturday morning phone call to Anita Hill, a woman who had remained silent since 1986 appears in the press to claim she can corroborate the charges that Anita Hill made nineteen years ago.

Desperate Democrats demonize donors, facts be damned.

Western athletes who’ve complained about the conditions at the Commonwealth Games are coming in for a firestorm of criticism.

Newt Gingrich is feeding the fires again, this time claiming that the President may be guided by a “Kenyan,” “anti-colonialist” worldview.

A renowned sports economist argues that black quarterbacks are treated differently than their white counterparts.

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin held a rally on the National Mall, but at times it sounded more like an old-time religious revival than a modern political rally.

The Tea Party is coming to Washington, D.C. on Saturday for a Glenn Beck rally and one travel guide is warning them to stay away from certain parts of the city. Subtle racism ? No, it’s common sense.

Why are people’s views about Islam so screwed up ? Mostly because the only things they know about it tend to be the worst possible aspects of all.

American Conservatism has changed significantly since the days of William F. Buckley Jr. One former National Review editor says that it’s changed for the worse.