Outside the Beltway

The Pew Center is out with a new political typology.

The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

An attempt at explaining where I am coming from on in the health care discussion.

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.

The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.

There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.

The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.

The bottom line is that the problem with the Ryan Plan is the Ryan Plan.

The GOP seems to be losing the public relations battle over deficit reduction.

Joe Biden: During several months of planning for the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, ” as many as 16 members of Congress that were briefed on it, not a single solitary thing leaked.”

The question of how the world’s most wanted man could’ve hidden in plain sight in Pakistan continues to be asked.

The myth that the U.S. armed and trained Osama bin Laden in the early 80’s is rearing its ugly head again.

Americans are rallying around the President in the wake of the mission against bin Laden, but it’s likely to be short-lived.

A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.

Gary Weddle, a schoolteacher from East Wenatchee, Washington, has cut his beard after waiting almost ten years for Osama bin Laden to be killed.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.