Outside the Beltway

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

The Republican candidates for President have apparently forgotten that this guy was their party’s nominee twice.

Congress eliminates a bad subsidy, but it’s only because there’s a worse one on the books.

Mitt Romney said the other day that the 2012 Election is about “the soul of the country.” This is most assuredly not true.

Let’s ban robocalls.

Understanding the state of the GOP field requires recognizing that President Obama is actually pretty moderate.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the role of the judiciary are very dangerous.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

Don’t believe the fear mongering about the coming decreases in the growth of defense spending.

Could Newt Gingrich really become the Republican nominee? Stranger things have happened.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.

Guess who got advance warning of government actions on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis?

Doug Feith’s replacement is prettier and softer spoken.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

Last night, Herman Cain established that he simply isn’t prepared to be Commander in Chief.

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.

Herman Cain’s promise to rely on “experts” should raise eyebrows everywhere.

George Will reminds conservatives to look in the mirror if the prospect of a President Romney dismays them.

President Obama’s surprise announcement Friday that all U.S. forces would leave Iraq in time to be home for the holidays has been roundly condemned. While there are real concerns about what happens next, there was no better alternative.

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

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

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

After a lengthy wait, free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea have been approved by Congress.

Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” has changed the rules of the game, for now.

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

Where should we look to understand the failings of the government?

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

During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney repeated a charge that has become part of the conservative zeitgeist. But is it true?

Based on the numbers, Barack Obama is an immigration hawk.

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

As more details roll in on President Obama’s millionaire tax hike, it’s looking like it was drawn up by J. Wellington Wimpy: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

More pay for play at the White House?

Top Democrats are starting to voice public concerns about 2012.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Killing’s our business and business is good.

Why was the ATF allowing thousands of weapons to be smuggled to Mexican drug gangs?

It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people manage to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that their political philosophy has massive support.

Environmentalists are upset by President Obama’s decision to abandon stringent new smog regulations, but he made the right decision.

The failure of a solar energy firm in California is raising questions about a centerpiece of the Administration’s economic policy.

Jon Huntsman is out with a tax and jobs plan that deserves a lot more attention than it’s likely to get.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.