Outside the Beltway

Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” has changed the rules of the game, for now.

Long-time Oakland Raiders owner and NFL icon Al Davis has died.

Rick Perry’s unforced error streak continues.

My latest for The Atlantic, “Romney’s Realist Foreign Policy Is a Lot Like Obama’s,” has been posted.

Mike Flynn, the 2-star who blasted military intelligence, is now the 3-star charged with fixing military intelligence.

It’s time to start being concerned about Europe.

Are the worries about China overtaking the United States realistic?

Mitt Romney has rolled out his foreign policy strategy in a white paper titled “AN AMERICAN CENTURY—A STRATEGY TO SECURE AMERICA’S ENDURING INTERESTS AND IDEALS.”

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

September’s jobs report was better than expected, but still not very good.

Listing affiliation with gay activist groups hinders one’s chances of landing a job interview.

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

A complexity of social policy is the need for universality. This is why pure market models are incompatible with government action.

Protestors have converged on DC, rallying against Afghanistan, Wall Street, and stuff.

Elizabeth Warren has a deeply flawed view of our social contract.

Ten years ago tomorrow, President Bush announced that “the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Another case of the law of unintended consequences.

I will appearing on “Power Play with Chris Stirewalt” on Fox News Live this morning discussing America’s ten years in Afghanistan and other topics.

Sarah Palin is out for 2012

Hank Williams Jr. has offered an apology for calling the Obama administration “the enemy” and comparing the president to Hitler:

It turns out there are some jobs immigrants will do, but Americans won’t

A group of researchers at Texas Tech, The University of Texas, and Yale University are conducting an online survey investigating social media use and political attitudes and behaviors.

The partisan crowds like President Obama’s populist rhetoric but it seems ill-suited for his re-election strategy.

You think you’ve got it bad at work? Meet Trudy Nycole Anderson.

The Occupy Wall Street protests look more like a temper tantrum than a substantive protest movement.

Is Herman Cain for real, or is this rise int he polls just another boomlet destined to fade away?

The Occupy Wall Street protests are, ironically, hurting small business owners and others in the 99 percent.

One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting.

Sarah Palin’s law firm has been calling states about primary filing deadlines.

Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) took to the floor yesterday to lambaste Grover Norquist and his influence over the GOP.

Anesthesiologist Eugene Lipov thinks he has found a cheap, effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army won’t fund it.

Mitt Romney is once again the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination.