Outside the Beltway

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

The trends in President Obama’s approval numbers are not moving in the direction he ought to want them to go.

The faux scandal of today comes to us courtesy of The Daily Caller: “Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website.”

Much like the Tea Party, David Frum wants to make the GOP tent smaller.

Divided government is the worst political system ever, except for all the others.

With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.

:Like his predecessors, President Obama’s speech last night exaggerated the threat that Syria poses in order to sell his plan to American voters.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

Score one for Team Bush?

As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.

A late-night announcement that Gitmo detainees will get hearings raises more questions than it answers.

Once again, the threat of the “nuclear option” appears to have had less megatonnage than some expected and others hoped.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

Frustrations with the mercurial leader of Afghanistan may increase the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A decade ago. a certain New York Times columnist was more right than your humble host.

The Supreme Court accepts what will likely be one of the most important cases of its upcoming term.

President Obama’s poll numbers seem to be suffering under the weight of nearly two months of scandals and/ media attention.

Even if you trust the current occupant of the White House to exercise the powers granted to the agencies operating in secret under him, do you trust all future Presidents?

The ACLU is suing over the NSA’s data mining. Does it really have a chance?

Revelations about the NSA’s data mining programs don’t seem to be having a significant impact on public opinion.

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

Apparently, it’s not just reporters whose phone logs the Obama administration is tracking.

President Obama threw down a gauntlet today in the form of a trio of Judicial nominations.

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

Are civil liberties once again at risk in the wake of the bombing attack in Boston?

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

The Boston Marathon bomber must be tried in a court of law.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

A former Navy SEAL charges that Blackwater snipers killed American citizens in New Orleans during Katrina’s aftermath.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

The odds for a party switch in the House of Representatives remain quite low.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

Second thoughts about the Iraq War

The Judicial Confirmation process needs to be fixed.

The D.C. Circuit now has four vacancies out of eleven seats.

Rand Paul’s questions about the nation’s drone war were only the beginning.

Mr. Paul Goes To Washington.

The White House employs calligraphers. And pays them money!

Walter Russell Mead presents his sitrep of the War on Terror.