Outside the Beltway

The National Football League’s decision to postpone last night’s Eagles-Vikings game due to weather is receiving a lot of criticism, but they made the right choice.

Complaints from Rush Limbaugh tthat the ACLU is ignoring the intrusions into America’s civil liberties by the TSA are completely unfounded.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows and, when it comes to the debate over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, anti-tax Republicans are making common cause with soak-the-rich progressives.

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

The latest story being repeated by the conservative talking heads is the claim that President Obama will be spending $ 200 million per day on his upcoming overseas trip. The problem is that it’s not true.

Did President Obama degrade his office by appearing on “The Daily Show”? Or is that notion a relic of a bygone era?

Yes, I think that Palin is running in 2012.

The GOP looks likely to win substantial victories next Tuesday, and may even take control of both Houses of Congress, but they’ve already made their own failure inevitable.

Mike Huckabee is the latest Republican to tack up the banner against the so-called “elites.”

The Obamarator Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

More than ever before in the past, Fox News Channel will be the exclusive medium through which many of the candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination communicate with the public. And that’s a problem.

Conservatives have latched on to a few words in a decade-old article by Democrat Chris Coons in their efforts to boost the candidacy of Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.

While it may be true that facts are stubborn things, a lot of American are stubborn in the face of them.

A growing number of conservatives are in dismay about the state of their movement.

President Obama went on TV and said something true. What was he thinking?

Republicans are much closer to America’s political center than Democrats.

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.

Once again, the knives are out for Michael Steele after his recent Afghanistan gaffe.

If people feel the need to evoke Reagan, it would be nice if they would evoke the real one, rather than an alt reality version.

South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham sees the beginning of the end of the Tea Parties, and he’s probably right.

Michael Gerson argues that the source of our polarization isn’t the Democrats and the Republicans but the Ugly Party and the Grown-Up Party.

Sharing your unvarnished thoughts on a listserv is just asking for trouble, as Dave Weigel is the latest to discover.