Outside the Beltway

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

Pastor Terry Jones, best known as the “Burn a Koran Day” instigator, is throwing his proverbial hat into the ring.

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting.

Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) took to the floor yesterday to lambaste Grover Norquist and his influence over the GOP.

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

When the FBI essentially creates a terrorist in order to arrest him, have we really accomplished anything?

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

Accusing someone of “politicizing” a discussion of 9/11 is like accusing someone of “athleticizing” a discussion of football.

Paul Krugman chose to mark the the 10th anniversary of September 11th with an odd blog post.

Not every 10th anniversary of a horrible surprise attack has been treated the same.

Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?

The short-lived national unity spawned by the attacks of a decade ago was re-kindled for a few hours as former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush joined with Vice President Joe Biden to honor Flight 93.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

For a peace envoy, Blair has some nonpeaceful ideas.

Killing’s our business and business is good.

Are colleges teaching the right lessons about the 9/11 attacks?

Understanding why your enemy hates you seems to be an important thing, but some people would rather believe in caricatures.

Repeating the “destruction creates wealth” fallacy every time there’s a natural disaster doesn’t make it any less of a fallacy.

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

With a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast, the House Majority Leader is engaged in an accounting exercise.

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

Is the NYPD becoming too much like the CIA?

Either a bunch of bloggers or one of the world’s smartest economists doesn’t understand economics.

According to Paul Krugman, what the American economy needs is for a bunch of space aliens to invade us.

Does Ron Paul’s second place showing at Ames mean the media should take him seriously as a contender? No, it doesn’t.

Examining the impact of current events requires stepping back from them just a little bit.

Michele Bachmann is claiming that the debt downgrade proves she was right about not raising the debt ceiling.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

The House GOP’s proposed Balanced Budget Amendment contains the seeds of its own utter worthlessness.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.