Outside the Beltway

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who will enter the Presidential race tomorrow, says he wouldn’t have tried to have Osama bin Laden killed.

John McCain thoroughly dismantles the argument that Osama bin Laden’s capture vindicates the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

Video of the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden

Can one effectively run for the presidency if one’s spouse doesn’t want to be in the spotlight?

Is the war in Libya illegal?

Republicans are playing politics with the National Debt. Please don’t tell me you’re shocked.

Do people really understand the taxes we pay?

Elias Isquith proclaims my Atlantic essay “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” to be “a total disaster.”

Technology has saved the lives of countless American soldiers. But it’s made going to war easier.

So, what’s up with Donald Trump’s bizarre hairdo? He insists it’s not a comb-over.

I’ve begun to wonder about the future of U. S. security policy. This isn’t a serious analytical post; it’s just what I call “musing”—committing disorganized thoughts to writing.

Matt Eckel’s takeaway from my Atlantic piece on How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology is that we need a peer competitor.

When you look at it a little more closely, the Texas cheerleader case looks to be a case of bad lawyering.

The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.

Not surprisingly, having ordered a successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden is being highlighted on President Obama’s re-election tour.

Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

For the first time, a majority of Republicans support creation of a third political party. Does it really mean anything?

A lot of people appear confused at to what the debt ceiling is and why it has to be raised.

An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)

The first round of appellate arguments over the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act took place today in Richmond, Virginia.

The Washington Wizards have gone back to the future with new uniforms that look remarkably like the old Washington Bullets unis.

Hockey star Sean Avery’s recent statements supporting gay marriage has drawn fire from an unlikely source: His agent.

Christopher Hitchens is losing his voice. He misses it.

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

Babies “R” Us sells defective, dangerous products. Do not shop there.

The rebel and onion armies showed grose negligence by having many of their battles right inside national parks, like Gettysburg.

Erick Erickson questions Jon Huntsman’s loyalty to America.