Outside the Beltway

“There’s a lot of commander coming.”

Allen West says Congressmen who oppose the war in Afghanistan should go over and “get shot at a few times and maybe they’d have a different opinion.”

Is the war in Libya illegal?

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

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?

The impact of the death of Osama bin Laden on the domestic politics is likely to be minimal at best.

A Pentagon investigation was unable to verify some of the comments attributed to General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone last year. That doesn’t mean he’s been cleared, though.

Ten days after sending American forces into kinetic military action in Libya, President Obama addressed the nation to explain “what we’ve done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us.”

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

Orly Taitz, Queen of the Birthers, loses in court (again).

Like it or not, the U.S. Constitution has always been a political document, evolving depending on the players on the stage.

There’s plenty of good news for Barack Obama in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Marine Commandant James Amos is going all-out to keep gay Marines in the closet, saying allowing them to serve openly could get men killed.

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

The commander-in-chief, secretary of defense, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all support removing the ban on gays in the military without further delay. A long-awaited Pentagon study showed no reason not to do so. But three of four Service chiefs disagree.

The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.

Is there really anyone who can credibly argue at this point that the policy regarding homosexuals openly serving in the armed services is anything other than basic discrimination?

Roughly 150 years ago, the CSA was born. Is this something worthy of celebration?

Should members of the Armed Forces and other public employees have the same rights under the 1st Amendment as the rest of us? Or should they be more like journalists?

Civilian control of the military means, oddly, that civilians control the military. And it means precisely that the military does not get to decide which civilians run the country.

Either Obama’s Defense Secretary and commanding general are conspiring to undermine his July 11 deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan or that they’re carrying out his intent.

Is political office in Stan McChrystal’s future?

Are we making too much of Stanley McChrystal’s remarks?

General Stanley McChrystal is opening his mouth again and, this time, it could cost him his job.