Outside The Beltway | OTB

• Caption Contest Winners February 8, 2010
  The Sala-bye Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (AFP/Yuri Gripas) ✰ THE WINNERS ✰ First: FormerHostage – Can you speed this up? We have an audience with the Pope in about an hour. Second: Mr. Prosser – We are trying to cooperate, Congressman, but unfortunately, until the botox wears off my wife is unable to speak. Third: charles [...] […]
  Rodney Dill
• John Murtha Dead at 77 February 8, 2010
  Jack Murtha, the controversial Congressman and retired Marine colonel, has died. Representative John P. Murtha, the longtime Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, has died at age 77.His aides released a statement saying that he died shortly after 1 p.m. today at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Mr. Murtha had been place […]
  James Joyner
• Jon Stewart: Blogs Must Be Crazy February 8, 2010
  I’m a bit behind on my “Daily Show” viewing, so hadn’t yet seen this segment where Jon Stewart pokes fun at some blogs for the use of outlandish headlines: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Blogs Must Be Crazy www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Amusingly, Media Bistro’s Tina Dupuy does the […]
  James Joyner
• NFL Players Association vs. Typical Unions February 8, 2010
  CAP’s David Madland argues that the ongoing labor dispute between the National Football League and its player’s union demonstrates how much better off non-professional-athlete workers would be if they were unionized. But the fact that the players are able to bargain on equal footing with the owners is directly relevant to our economic fate. One [...] […]
  James Joyner
• Sarah Palin’s Hand February 8, 2010
  Given the fascination with Sarah Palin’s legs and Sarah Palin’s toenails, I suppose this was inevitable: The focus has now shifted to Sarah Palin’s hands.  (We’re quickly running out of family-friendly parts of Sarah Palin’s body.) Stefan Sirucek, in a HuffPo Exclusive: Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked [...] […]
  James Joyner