Outside the Beltway

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

Bill Clinton thinks some sort of government agency should do somethingorother about rumors on the Internet.

For as long as the notion of individual rights has existed, one of them has been the sanctity one’s home. As of Thursday, that’s no longer true in Indiana.

You know those creepy running shoes that look like fluorescent feet? They’re going mainstream.

Foreign Policy’s David Kenner has a reading list for President Obama to help him get read for his big speech to recast our relationship with the Arab world. Topping the Persian Gulf section is Crossroads Arabia, by our own John Burgess.

Amanda Marcotte argues that society secretly sympathizes with rapists.

Romney wants to make a federalism based argument for why his MA health care bill is good, while the PPACA is tyrannical. However, just saying that is not an argument.

If former President George W. Bush has any bitterness that Osama bin Laden was finally killed under his successor, he’s not showing it.

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

Is lunch necessary? It’s not really where the conversation is.

Superman doesn’t hate America after all!

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who will enter the Presidential race tomorrow, says he wouldn’t have tried to have Osama bin Laden killed.

John McCain thoroughly dismantles the argument that Osama bin Laden’s capture vindicates the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

Video of the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden

Can one effectively run for the presidency if one’s spouse doesn’t want to be in the spotlight?

Is the war in Libya illegal?

Republicans are playing politics with the National Debt. Please don’t tell me you’re shocked.

Do people really understand the taxes we pay?

Elias Isquith proclaims my Atlantic essay “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” to be “a total disaster.”

Technology has saved the lives of countless American soldiers. But it’s made going to war easier.

So, what’s up with Donald Trump’s bizarre hairdo? He insists it’s not a comb-over.

I’ve begun to wonder about the future of U. S. security policy. This isn’t a serious analytical post; it’s just what I call “musing”—committing disorganized thoughts to writing.

Matt Eckel’s takeaway from my Atlantic piece on How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology is that we need a peer competitor.