Outside the Beltway

Antonin Scalia says “The only question in Bush v. Gore was whether the presidency would be decided by the Florida Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court.”

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

Those of us who subscribe to DirecTV have lost Comedy Central and 16 other Viacom channels.

Mitt Romney continues to trail the President very badly among Latino voters. That could be a big problem in November.

When I saw the headline “Black Mormons Face Tough Election Choice Between Romney And Obama,” I naturally presumed it would lead to a parody news piece in The Onion.

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

Mitt Romney has a big problem. People don’t seem to like him very much.

Weeks of bizarre talk about contraception and vaginal ultrasounds has surprisingly alienated women from the Republican Party.

Cal Thomas made a tasteless joke at Rachel Maddow’s expense. He describes the lesson in civility he learned.

A change in the law will radically increase retirement pay for generals and admirals.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

A Selection Of Speaker Gingrich’s Thoughts Over The Years

Are these The Final Two?

Polls are starting to show signs that the sexual harassment allegations are starting to hurt Herman Cain.

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

Last night’s speech at the Reagan Library did nothing to stop people from speculating about Chris Christie’s Presidential plans.

Rick Perry is still the GOP frontrunner, but his status far from secure.

The Texas Governor was taking it from all sides at last night’s Tea Party Debate.

In five days, Rick Perry has gone from calling Social Security a “monstrous lie” to saying we need to have a conversation about fixing it.

Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

Three new polls provide a warning to both sides of the debt negotiations, but mostly to Republicans.

The Army is fielding tiny blast sensors to gauge the effects of explosions on individual soldiers.

As of June 17, Sarah Palin is a registered US trademark, serial number 85-170,226.

Is it appropriate for news organizations to decide that the people don’t need to hear from certain political candidates?

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

Presenting photo identification is not an onerous requirement for voting. But there’s next to zero evidence that fraud is a problem.

The last American veteran of a conflict which ended nearly a century ago has died.

A new national poll suggests that moves to restrict the collective bargaining rights of public sector unions are not popular with the public at large:

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was a Tea Party darling when he picked up Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat last year, but he’s not embracing the movement as he prepares to run for re-election next year.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

The internal debate in the Republican Party over the tax cut extension deal with President Obama is serving as a preview of some of the battles that may erupt during the race for the party’s nomination in 2012.

George W. Bush’s new memoir reveals that he briefly considered replaced Dick Cheney as Vice-President before the 2004 elections. His decision not to do so reveals much about the relationship between Presidents and Vice-Presidents in modern American politics.

The GOP is headed for big gains on Tuesday. The only question now is how big they’re going to be.