Outside the Beltway

Blaming Obama for the security bubble he travels in is, in the end, a pretty dumb argument.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

In case you needed a further reason to dismiss Jerome Corsi (and some general thoughts on what Corsi represents).

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

Was Arafat poisoned? A new report raises some questions, but answers none of them conclusively.

Eleanor Clift reflects on her “final issue after 50 years at Newsweek.”

Score one for Team Bush?

The Sacramento Bee has released this remarkable video of President Gerald Ford testifying about the assassination attempt by Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme.

A Federal Judge wasn’t very pleased when Administration lawyers told her that she doesn’t have jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit over the President’s drone policy.

Ostensible allies in the fight against the Assad regime, al Qaeda and the Free Syrian Army are killing each other.

The events of the last week in Egypt raise a whole host of questions.

Bill McClellan calls for ending military funeral honors for most veterans.

One in eight Americans support drone strikes against Americans on American soil.

The Obama White House is not ruling out targeted strikes against Americans inside American territory.

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Two years ago, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were killed in a plane crash in Russia. A new report has “traces of explosives” in the debris.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

If you thought the War On Terror might be over, think again.

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

The Presidency costs taxpayers a lot of money, but that’s been true for many, many years now.

Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.

A new book by one of the Navy SEALs involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden differs significantly from the official version put forward by the government.

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

Examining a history that might have been.

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

There are some glaring omissions from a recent list of television’s “most powerful” moments.

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

Who benefits from the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare ruling?

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.