Outside the Beltway

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

Usually if a quote is too good to be true, it is.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

You’d think that in today’s world employers wouldn’t have trouble finding qualified employees. You’d be wrong.

Once again, pundits are suggesting that New York’s Michael Bloomberg might run for President. Though nobody seems to be able to explain why.

“The debt crisis is burrowing ever deeper, like a worm, and is now reaching Germany.”

Grover Norquist has become the target of blame for problems that are far more deep than just one man.

“Democratic” pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen argue that President Obama should decline to run for re-election.

Jon Huntsman’s campaign has never really gotten off the ground. Will conservatives start taking him more seriously?

A dwindling proportion of students are majoring in STEM fields. They’re likely making the wise choice.

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

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

Why does wine get so much more written treatment than beer?

The Feds fired Monster and now USAJobs is a disaster

Rick Perry’s tax plan isn’t very impressive.

On the day his campaign is set to make a major economic roll out, Rick Perry went the birther route again.

Some on the right are giving Occupy Wall Street and The 99%’ers a second look.

Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 double talk is starting to show

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

Rupert Murdoch’s publishing empire is being rocked by a second scandal, this one a scheme to inflate the circulation figures of the Wall Street Journal.

Herman Cain is leading Mitt Romney in two respected polls.

Damage from starting one’s career during a recession can persist over one’s entire working life.

And, the week closes out with another round of rumors about New Jersey’s Governor.

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

Mitt Romney’s jobs plan is detailed, but it doesn’t seem to be impressing anyone.

With most of the public looking at the future and not seeing anything good, the President is suffering

The Western fetish for turning cheap, efficient food into expensive, inefficient fuel is threatening the food supply–as is the European superstition against genetically modified foods.

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.

Details of the President’s jobs plan are starting to leak out, and they’re not looking impressive.

Rick Perry’s vision of capitalism doesn’t exactly comply with what Adam Smith had in mind.

What’s the bottom line in the Texas jobs discussion?

More on Texas and jobs.

Rick Perry may be much less than meets the eye.

Is S&P’s downgrade of the US bond rating “free speech” and thereby protected by the Constitution?

While it’s hard to argue with S&P’s political analysis, its economic judgment is a head-scratcher.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

Yes, the President is a key actor in the debt ceiling debate. However, the actual decision is a congressional one.

It hasn’t been a very productive weekend in Washington, D.C.

The ban on gays openly serving in the military will end in September, nine months after President Obama signed the repeal into law.

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