Outside the Beltway

The evidence is clear. When it comes to the ability to handle foreign crises, the President has lost the public’s confidence.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

The latest chapter in an all too familiar story.

The search for more than 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls is not going well, and part of the blame lies with the Nigerian government.

Hubris.

Not every tragedy can be resolved with a military response.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

The US military needs to cull and standardize its bloated award system.

Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl commercial ran only once, but it remains in a class by itself.

The Iraqis need to learn to govern themselves, and conservatives blaming President Obama for renewed violence need a history lesson.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

The world changed significantly twelve years ago today. Will it ever change back even a little bit?

The president’s public dithering on Syria is drawing jeers from friend and foe alike.

A headline I never thought I’d see: “Yemen Asks U.S. For Drones To Fight Al Qaeda”

The Air Force can’t find enough people to volunteer to fly remote controlled planes.

In response to North Korean saber rattling and the rise of China, Japan is reassessing it’s military posture

The two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are clashing on defense appropriations.

An overweight Republican from the northeast is thinking about running for president. No, not that one.

The Navy is building a ridiculously expensive robot spy plane.

Opponents of immigration reform are using “border security” as a shield to hide their true desire to kill the very idea of immigration reform.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

Going from flying a real airplane to operating a drone in Alamagordo sucks.

If one is going to be in government, one ought to take governing seriously.

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?

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

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

Targeting terrorist leadership may be counterproductive.

One in eight Americans support drone strikes against Americans on American soil.

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

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

Mr. Paul Goes To Washington.

The Obama White House is not ruling out targeted strikes against Americans inside American territory.

Silly things members of Congress say (plus musings on authoritarianism).

Here we go again.

While I’m sure President Obama has fantasies of launching drones on Congress, it’s not over his drone policy.