Outside the Beltway

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

There’s still time for Sarah Palin to burnish her political reputation. But she probably won’t.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

President Obama’s selection of Bill Daley as Chief of Staff is being seen as a sign that the White House is moving to the center and gearing up for 2012.

Are Marco Rubio, Haley Barbour, and Mike Huckabee the favorites to win the White House?

Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts President Obama’s re-election. Historically, that’s the safe bet.

With Rahm Emanuel apparently set to leave the White House to run for Mayor of Chicago, speculation is turning to who may replace him in what some have called the nation’s de facto Prime Minister-ship.

Civilian control of the military means, oddly, that civilians control the military. And it means precisely that the military does not get to decide which civilians run the country.

If you think Jimmy Carter is the Worst Figure in American History, you really need to read more.

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker today declared California’s Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional, thus opening the latest front in the gay marriage wars.

The Electoral College is the worst way to elect a President, except for all the others.

Portland authorities have decided, for a second time, that there isn’t enough evidence to charge Al Gore with sexual assault in a 2006 case.

Massachusetts will become the latest state to join the National Popular Vote movement, a compact wherein states throw their Electoral College votes to the nationwide winner once enough states agree to ensure that outcome.

Al Gore has been accused of sexually assaulting a “masseuse” in a Portland hotel room.

Americans on both sides of the aisle throw around words like “tyranny” and “fascism” about our system. But there are constant small reminders we are under the rule of law.

Should Obama waive restrictions on international shipping, as Bush did during Katrina? It’s more complicated than you may think.