Outside the Beltway

It turns out the Iraq War was indeed based, in part at least, on a lie.

DHS Secretary Napolitano issues some vague warnings to Congress.

Stephanie Guttman, author of something called The Kinder, Gentler Military, takes to NRO to tell us how easy it is to cut the Defense budget. She inadvertently does just the opposite.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has made public documents which confirm his predecessors role in the release of the man convicted of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103.

Sarah Palin said something about the crisis in Egypt, but it’s not at all clear what she meant.

A new Wikileaks revelation indicates that the U.S. may have paid a heavy price to get a deal on New START.

Some in Washington are claiming the intelligence community missed the warning signs of unrest in Tunisia and Egypt in what looks like little more than an effort to create scapegoats if things go wrong.

The debate over Senator Rand Paul’s proposed $500 billion spending cut plan has focused almost exclusively on one issue, and one nation.

European subsidies have given Airbus a competitive advantage over America’s Boeing in commercial aircraft salesboein. The reverse is true on military aircraft.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak responded to mass unrest by cutting off his people from the outside world. Do we really want an American President to have the same power?

The United States is facing a serious public relations problem among the Egyptian people.

The GOP is facing a battle between its fiscal conservatism and i’s military adventurism.

Here’s how terrorists get past airport security: don’t bother to go through it.

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

While the violence is down in Iraq, it’s not gone.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

America’s foremost tax foe has weighed in on the Afghanistan War debate.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

While our politics are seldom violent, our violence is often politicized.

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

The American military personnel system works against keeping the best and brightest officers in the service.

Captain Dee Mewbourne, who previously commanded the EISENHOWER, will skipper the ENTERPRISE.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”