Outside the Beltway

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

Condoleeza Rice’s first trip onto the political stage was very successful last night. Where will she go from here?

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a message for those who wear and have worn our country’s uniform: “We are not elected to serve; rather, we elect to serve.”

If you can name at least one of these people, you know more than two-thirds of your fellow citizens.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

The most recent round of national polling seems to show that the negative attacks on Romney are having an impact.

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

The US government has an odd and unproductive view on the concept of talks.

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

It would be nice if people who make authoritative decisions had some idea what they are talking about.

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

In advance of tomorrow’s ruling, some pundits on the left are displaying some very odd views on the role of the law in American politics.

It’s a wonder the Constitution gets followed at all.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

The history of the DREAM Act underscores the significance of the 60-vote Senate.

Frustrated by its inability to get laws passed through Congress, the Obama administration has decided to stop following laws already passed by Congress.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

There is no evidence that the Capital Punishment works.

The President’s Cabinet is less a Team Of Rivals and more a Team Of Managers.

A Bill Clinton parody account created by the Romney campaign is both clever and yet another sign of what’s wrong with American politics.

In an ideal world, today’s Recall Election in Wisconsin would not even be legally possible.

Republicans apparently think that re-running the 2008 campaign, just more efficiently or more ruthlessly, will work this time. Here’s why it won’t.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

We, as Americans, tend to have a limited knowledge of the institutional variation that exists across democratic systems around the world.

Yes, it is too hard to amend. A few quick thoughts on the subject.

How can opinion shift quickly on a given topic?

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.