Outside the Beltway

The antiwar movement has been strangely silent despite the fact that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t really changed that much since Barack Obama became President.

So much for not getting invaded…

With minor exceptions, all of the potential candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 seem to have accepted the idea that defense spending, and the Bush-era interventionist foreign policy, are off the table when it comes time to talk spending cuts.

While the prestige outlets of the halcyon days of the last millennium still hold some cachet for those of us old enough to remember that era, they mean next to nothing on the Web.

Nine years into a war that seems to be without end, it’s time to declare victory and go home.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

Is Jon Stewart a useful idiot?

Global poverty has plummeted in recent years.

It turns out the Iraq War was indeed based, in part at least, on a lie.

The Obama Justice Department says it can look at phone records without warrants or judicial oversight.

The media are wildly exaggerating the heckling at a gathering of conservatives.

President Obama’s approval numbers have dropped 9 points since the Egypt crisis broke out.

The US has limited influence over events in Egypt–something that recent history should underscore (although not everyone appears to understand this fact).

The Obama administration’s slow and cautious response to Egypt’s protest was frustrating. And correct.

The GOP is facing a battle between its fiscal conservatism and i’s military adventurism.

Anti-government protests raged in Egypt for a second day, and nobody seems to know where they’re headed.

Part two of the ongoing series blogging Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

House Republicans want to do away with the increasing number of “czars” in the White House.

Iraq’s PM re-affirms Iraq’s commitment to the U. S. withdrawal date in the Status of Forces Agreement.

With just over a week to go before the 112th Congress convenes, battle lines are already being drawn in battle over the defense budget.

President Obama is supporting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Is this the end of America?

Republicans were largely silent during the Bush Administration as spending went out of control. Will they do that again?

A document uncovered in a Freedom of Information Act request demonstrates the extent to which Federal law enforcement works outside the requirements of the Constitution.

Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to raise “Serious Questions about the Obama Administration’s Incompetence in the WikiLeaks Fiasco.” They’re more interesting than I’d expected.

After 1 1/2 years in office, President Obama has yet to grant a single request for a pardon or clemency, continuing a thirty year trend in which the Presidential pardon power has nearly fallen in to disuse.

The Republican talking point that lowering taxes lowers spending and raising taxes increases spending is denied by reality.

At least one group of Tea Party activists seems to realize that their biggest mistake of the 2010 election cycle was backing candidates like Christine O’Donnell who turned out to be their own worst enemies.

So will there be an efficacious backlash against TSA policies? I am guessing no.

The race between Jeb Hensarling and Michelle Bachmann for Chair of the House GOP Conference is a microcosm for a battle that is likely to take place within the GOP for the next two years.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson takes a look at the Tea Party movement and claims to find racism.

Republicans are promising two years of gridlock and obstructionism if they take control of Congress, but is that really what the people who are likely to vote for them next week really want?

A call for ideological purity in the Democratic Party in today’s New York Times demonstrates that Democrats can be just as foolish as Republicans.

In what is being described as the largest leak of secret documents in U.S. history, Wikileaks has made public more than 400,000 documents related to the seven year long Iraq War.

Remember that $400 tax cut President Obama gave you? Neither do 90 percent of Americans.

The coalition of voters that propelled Barack Obama to an historic victory in 2008 is seemingly falling apart, and the President is reacting by blaming the voters.

Who’s to blame for the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, President Obama or those who have actually been encouraging bias against Muslims?

Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.

Greg Mankiw notes a curious revisionism in Barney Frank’s pronouncements on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.

It’s been a decade since al Qaeda attacked the USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors. The perpetrators are still at large.

Once again, Washington is abuzz with rumors that Hillary Clinton will be replacing Joe Biden as the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee in 2012.