Outside the Beltway

The Stephen Colbert Super PAC that began as a satire has now been blessed by the real FEC. What exactly this means is not yet clear.

The Obama administration is arguing the 14th Amendment renders the debt ceiling moot.

Just how significant is Sarah Palin in the grand scheme of things?

Jeff Jacoby claims that marriage cannot be redefined.

Not exactly an example of moral leadership.

House and Senate Republicans are pushing a Balanced Budget Amendment. It sounds like a good idea, but it isn’t.

The first Appeals Court decision on the Affordable Care Act was a victory for the government.

Barack Obama’s leadership style may be his undoing.

While his best-known solo effort was “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, [and] anti-capitalistic,” John Lennon became a Reagan Republican a few years later, his assistant claims.

If the U.S. defaults, Eric Cantor will make some money.

Bachmann’s views on the Founders and slavery are more significant than simply a question of how to classify John Quincy Adams.

Does a little known provision in the 14th Amendment make the entire debt ceiling debate irrelevant?

When Tom Petty found out Michele Bachmann was using his “American Girl” to introduce campaign events, he issued a letter saying, in essence, “Don’t do me like that.”

The draft ended in 1973. It’s effects still linger today.

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

Alabama youth choir gets hand slapped for impromptu rendition of the national anthem.

A new Gallup poll discovers something rather obvious, but there’s still a lesson for the GOP.

Bachmann doubles-down on a problematic historical claim.

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

The Senate Republican leader is running a shrewd political game. But what’s good for the GOP is bad for America.

The odds of history are against Michele Bachmann.