Outside the Beltway

Barack Obama wrote two bestselling memoirs before becoming president. Both of them are hot items at Foggy Bottom.

If Republicans keep looking for the next Ronald Reagan, they’re going to be disappointed for many reasons.

On the day his campaign is set to make a major economic roll out, Rick Perry went the birther route again.

Previewing an Obama-Romney general election.

As of now, there’s no reason to believe that Mitt Romney won’t be the Republican nominee in 2012.

President Obama is being attacking from the right for following through on a policy decision made by his Republican predecessor.

Barack Obama uses a teleprompter. This is not a big deal.

Gaddafi is dead, but it was still wrong for the United States to get involved in Libya.

Is it time to just admit that the good old days are over?

Does “Occupy Wall Street” really represent the people they claim to be speaking for?

Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.

President Obama says he’ll fight for the 99 percent.

Like his tax plan, Herman Cain’s immigration plan is not serious.

Byron York argues that the lesson of Rick Perry’s candidacy is “Think before you run.”

Obama is trying to get into Guinness under “US President with Most Simultaneous Wars”

The Tea Party flame was lit by the battle over TARP, but they quickly forgot about those bailouts that supposedly upset them so much.

Obama’s Justice Department continues its crackdown on medical marijuana, despite campaign promises to the contrary.

Romney consolidated his position as the presumptive nominee, Perry continued his disintegration, Cain discovered what it was like to be a serious candidate, and Bachmann doubled down on crazy.

Not surprisingly, the “Super Committee” to deal with the deficit isn’t making much progress.

With the advantage of hindsight, it’s clear that more creative strategies were needed. But they probably couldn’t have been passed.

Ten years ago tomorrow, President Bush announced that “the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”

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

Sarah Palin is out for 2012

The partisan crowds like President Obama’s populist rhetoric but it seems ill-suited for his re-election strategy.

Anesthesiologist Eugene Lipov thinks he has found a cheap, effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army won’t fund it.

In an interview, President Obama says that Americans are worse off than they were four years ago.

Is money the only thing that matters in post-Citizens United American politics?

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

The health care battle is formally joined in the Supreme Court.

Last night’s speech at the Reagan Library did nothing to stop people from speculating about Chris Christie’s Presidential plans.

Neither political party is resonating with the public right now, and neither is acting in the manner the public would like.

The Supreme Court is on track to issue its most anticipated ruling in years right in the middle a Presidential campaign.