Outside the Beltway

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

Reminding government employees that they are employees of the government is suddenly controversial.

The White House is backing an effort to overturn a bizarre ruled recently enacted by the Library of Congress

Once again, politicians in Washington are engaging in irrelevant partisan battles rather than trying to solve the nation’s problems.

The GOP’s public image continues to be bad and there seems to be little sign that they’re doing anything to change that.

The Hagel confirmation, like Obama’s election, was big news to some avid news consumers.

Republicans at the state level are still trying to cook the books in the Electoral College

Ezra Klein argues that the voters already decided how the sequestration fight should play out.

The GOP isn’t going to solve it’s problems solely by concentrating on “messaging.”

The political antics surrounding the sequestration cuts is a prime example of what’s wrong with Washington.

The sequestration cuts are fast approaching, and the political battle is continuing.

Here we go again.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

It’s time to end this absurd annual spectacle.

The main who coined the word “meritocracy” meant it as a pejorative term.

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball isn’t being hypocritical in trusting Obama to decide which Americans to kill even though she wouldn’t have trusted Bush. But she’s being short-sighted.

A positive political climate for immigration reform.

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

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

Virginia has decisively killed a bill that would have awarded the Commonwealth’s electoral votes to the winner of gerrymandered congressional districts rather than the statewide winner.

Obama’s fundraising team helped raise half a million dollars for Hillary Clinton.

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.

The GOP seems to be drawing all the wrong lessons from the 2012 elections.

A potentially significant ruling on Separation Of Powers.

Some proposed reforms just need to be ignored.

Republicans continue to fight over their party’s future.

We really don’t need to be treating Inauguration Day like it’s the coronation of a new King.