Outside the Beltway

A bolt out of the blue.

It’s time to end this absurd annual spectacle.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace called a controversial NRA claim “ridiculous.”

At nearly $4 million for a 30 second spot, advertising on the Super Bowl is a bargain.

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

The GOP seems to be drawing all the wrong lessons from the 2012 elections.

The Slippery Slope Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The NRA is calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing armed guards in schools while sending his own girls to school with armed guards.

The Russian adoption ban isn’t sitting well with many Russians.

David Gregory committed a technical violation of DC’s gun law to make a point on a national news show. Conservative gun control opponents are angry.

What does it mean to be privileged? It means not having to think about any of this, ever.

The attempted coup against John Boehner resembled something you’d see in a banana republic.

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

Obsessive media coverage makes us believe mass shootings are far more common than they actually are.

Joe Lieberman has had a change of heart on term limits: He’s now for them.

Almost a decade ago, Roger Ebert wondered if making mass murderers famous doesn’t provide a perverse incentive.

Well. medium length anyway.

It’s okay to criticize military veterans–even if you never served in the military.

Actress Ashley Judd is reportedly considering a run for the United States Senate.

In “Eyes on the Prize,” Chuck Culpepper looks at Saban’s first season as a head coach, with Toledo, way back in 1989-90. It seems that Nick Saban has been Nick Saban for a very long time.

More signs of cracks in the wall of GOP resistance to tax increases.

Guess who’s back?