Outside the Beltway

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

Parties are in politics primarily to win the vote of the median voter, not to join together and sing Kumbaya.

Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

Wolf Blitzer just observed that the fact that the president has to take these “extraordinary security precautions” to enter Afghanistan proves how far we still have to go in Afghanistan.

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

Is the world ready for a post-Kim North Korea?

Five suspects have been arrested in a plot to blow up a Cleveland bridge.

The biggest argument against Romney winning in November is the fact that there aren’t many ways for him to get to those pesky 270 Electoral Votes.

The economic tea leaves don’t look disastrous, but they don’t look all that great either.

We seldom blame presidents for bold actions that go wrong. We despise them for appearing weak and indecisive.

Once upon a time, Jimmy Carter was everyone’s favorite former president. Not so much these days, especially among other former presidents.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

A disappointing beginning to 2012.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

The Solicitor General had another bad day in Court yesterday.

Should the United States Navy name a ship after martyred gay activist Harvey Milk? This is not a rhetorical question.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.

The attack appears to be based on long-standing animus and not revenge for Trayvon.

Welcome to today’s Outrage Of The Day

The Rule Of Law is incompatible with political rabble rousing

The famous “double helix” article was published 59 years ago today. It’s worth a look.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

How about we recognize that we do have ongoing and serious racial tension in this country rather than ignoring the issue most of the time and only deploying it when the game of politics is being played?