Outside the Beltway

The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

The biggest argument against Romney winning in November is the fact that there aren’t many ways for him to get to those pesky 270 Electoral Votes.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

Some thoughts on the voter registration/voter turnout debate.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Last week, an absurd campaign became even more absurd.

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Thomas Friedman is fantasizing about Michael Bloomberg again.

The Senate didn’t have a productive 2011. Is this just a case of laziness?

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

Get ready for a long, painful ordeal at the end of which we’re supposed to pick a President.

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.

Picking the wrong target.

Facts are stubborn things.

The Obama administration admits its push for the “Buffett Rule” is not about dealing with our budget woes.

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has really good reasons for not wanting to be Vice President.

OTB’s comment section as a microcosm of the American political landscape.

Marine Sergeant Gary Stein will soon be free to criticize the commander-in-chief all he wants. As a civilian.

Unsurprisingly, the Department of Justice confirms that it supports Marbury v. Madison

The White House and its allies have already declared war on a decision that won’t even be rendered until three months from now.

It seems to have been a rough day for the individual mandate at the Supreme Court.

By the end of today’s first day of hearings on the Affordable Care Act, the Justices seem eager to take the consider the case on the merits.

The results of Louisiana’s primary mean a lot less than the pundits will tell you they do.