Outside the Beltway

When will the madness end?

Comparing Obama to Carter on foreign policy (especially in terms of electoral politics) doesn’t make sense.

You don’t often see a candidate for President tell Iowans that he wants to eliminate ethanol subsidies, but Tim Pawlenty did.

Even before the individual mandate kicks in, the ACA has added hundreds of thousands of people to health insurance rolls.

Frank R. Lindh, father of Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi (aka Sulayman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, and John Walker Lindh) has an op-ed in the NYT asking “Bin Laden’s Gone. Can My Son Come Home?” The answer is, sure: In another 8 to 11 years.

The bungled politics of the Ryan plan.

Is Donald Trump back in the race? Not yet, but he hasn’t ruled it out.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

The US-Israeli relationship is not one of equals.

Tim Pawlenty may face trouble from a pardon he issued while he was Governor of Minnesota.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

Some think that 2012 will be like 1992. However, that analogy is problematic.

Amy Myers, the sophomore who challenged Michele Bachmann to a debate on the Constitution, has been the target of vile comments on the Internet.

“Our records indicate that your annual income for the 2011 taxable year was $2,170,000,000,000. You have requested a credit limit of $17,000,000,000,000. These figures exceed the American Public’s guidelines for credit issuance”

Business Week has a fascinating profile of Dietrich Mateschitz, whom they dub “Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac.”

Mitch Daniels, the candidate of George Will and a host of mainstream Republicans hoping for something better in 2012, has announced he will not be running for president in 2012.

The Obama Administration is offering an odd explanation for why it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act.

Yea you get to live in a nice house for a few years if you win, but why would any normal human being put themselves through a campaign for President?

With the customary hand-wringing over the low quality of the presidential field well underway, the corollary pining for other candidates to join the race is starting.

Canada is much friendlier than the United States with regard to immigration.

The Rapture has no biblical foundation and was made up by a 15-year-old girl in 1830.

It has now been 60 days since American involvement in Libya commenced. Congress has failed to act, and that’s their fault.