Outside the Beltway

The commander of Fort Knox has canceled a Ted Nugent concert after the rocker’s recent rant about President Obama.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

It would be nice if policies were assessed in terms of costs and benefits.

Some Marine women are going to Infantry Officers Course. Here’s how to make it work.

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Thomas Friedman is fantasizing about Michael Bloomberg again.

Time to prepare yourself for the incoming deluge of polling.

In an epic Internet scandal, Obama strategist David Axelrod has bought an expensive condo.

The Senate didn’t have a productive 2011. Is this just a case of laziness?

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

The Republican National Committee throws the Fifth Amendment under the bus.

Get ready for a long, painful ordeal at the end of which we’re supposed to pick a President.

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

“President Obama” is the answer to “one of these not like the others” in this world leaders photo taken during his Colombia visit.

Well, maybe a tiny one.

It would be nice if people in power would be a bit more introspective and thoughtful.

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

Republican Mitt Romney leads President Obama 46-44 in the latest Fox News poll of registered voters.

Further cementing his reputation as a sleaze bag, Newt Gingrich is now renting out the private information of his donors.

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

If Mitt Romney loses, could the Establishment GOP manage to hold back the conservative backlash? Don’t count on it.

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.