Outside the Beltway

There’s a trend toward using metrics to identify ways to stem the skyrocketing cost of higher education. The likeliest result is to devalue the “education” component.

The story about the private security guards who “arrested” a journalist at a Joe Miller campaign event just keeps getting stranger by the day.

The Silent Majority Wants a Dictatorship Run by Thomas Friedman

If South Carolina’s Jim DeMint has his way, the Senate won’t be conducting any business unless he approves of it.

A newly released poll on the Kentucky Senate race may not be an accurate measure of what’s actually going on in that race.

While it will be difficult, the idea that Lisa Murkowski could win a write-in bid to retain her Senate seat is not at all implausible.

Christine O’Donnell is buying ads on posts arguing that the party screwed itself by voting for her in yesterday’s Republican primary.

Last night’s celebration in Wilmington is sure to be tempered just a bit by news that Christine O’Donnell is sixteen points behind her Democratic opponent.

Is our Federal system a mere political compromise? Or were the Founding Fathers visionaries with a plan?

The idea that we are in the middle of an illegal immigration crisis is not supported by the evidence.

The only reasons Michael Kinsley can conjure for opposing the Park51 project are bigotry and political opportunism. Unless you’re a really smart columnist.

The Obama’s are vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard again this year so, of course, it’s time for people to say stupid things about Presidential leisure activities again.

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

Sharron Angle’s views about the role of religion in politics are disturbingly similar to those of people who believe that the Bible itself should be the law of the land.

The Electoral College is the worst way to elect a President, except for all the others.

The link between immigration and crime rates that many immigration opponents point to simply does not exist

Revisiting the application of the Declaration.

Yesterday’s ruling by a federal judge declaring the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional is likely to collapse on appeal.

The White House and Rahm Emanuel were quick to deny the reports that he has a plan to leave the White House.