Outside the Beltway

Civil asset forfeiture gives “highway robbery” a whole new meaning.

Not surprisingly, a law passed in the wake of the September 11th attacks has been used mostly for things that have nothing to do with terrorism.

Facing a tough re-election battle, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is engaging in abject fearrmongering.

We’ve handed off operations in Helmand Province to the Afghanistan army.

Yesterday’s apparent terrorist shooting in Ottawa reveals again a phenomenon that seems difficult if not impossible to stop in advance.

A massacre is about to unfold “a stone’s throw” from Turkey’s border.

Last week’s security breach just became a lot more serious.

Speaker Boehner wants to delay a vote on the ISIS war until January, but any such debate will be meaningless because Congress has already abdicated responsibility.

Apparently, the buck doesn’t stop in the Oval Office these days.

The American public’s support for the President’s war against ISIS has its limits.

The Khorasan Group is, functionally, al Qaeda. Or is it?

The TSA is up to its usual shenanigans.

A fired Oklahoma worker beheaded a woman and was attacking another when he was shot. Workplace violence? Or terrorism.

Before leaving office, Hamid Karzai is once again biting that hand that has fed him for the past decade.

President Obama hits new job approval lows, while the GOP seems poised for success in November,

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

Despite the President’s assurances of an international coalition, the rest of the world doesn’t seem all that interested in joining the fight.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

The Global War on Terror isn’t over after all.

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

Massive US intervention has for now liberated Amerli, averting humanitarian disaster. Another crisis looms.