Outside the Beltway

Obama brings rapid response, blogger “hand holding” in-house.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

Mitch Daniels, the candidate of George Will and a host of mainstream Republicans hoping for something better in 2012, has announced he will not be running for president in 2012.

The Obama Administration is offering an odd explanation for why it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act.

With the customary hand-wringing over the low quality of the presidential field well underway, the corollary pining for other candidates to join the race is starting.

It has now been 60 days since American involvement in Libya commenced. Congress has failed to act, and that’s their fault.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

Jon Huntsman made his first stop in New Hampshire as he explores a presidential bid. So far, so good.

Once again, an American President thinks he can bring peace to the Middle East.

Once again, Congressional abdication has led to an Executive Branch power grab.

With the 2012 GOP field looking very underwhelming, GOP insiders are looking toward Indianapolis for a savior.

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Does the Donald Trump flame-out provide any kind of guide to other candidates? Only if they want to host a reality show.

Ohio State researchers: ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

Matt Eckel’s takeaway from my Atlantic piece on How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology is that we need a peer competitor.

The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.

The first round of appellate arguments over the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act took place today in Richmond, Virginia.

Birtherism dies a quick death–and with it the notion that Obama’s opponents are motivated purely by race.

Last night’s Presidential Debate in South Carolina was interesting, but, in the end, not very important.

In a move sure to satisfy Deathers as much as a contemporaneous newspaper story satisfied Birthers, al Qaeda has released a statement confirming that Osama bin Laden is dead.

The Pew Center is out with a new political typology.

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.