Outside the Beltway

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Lethality.

Apparently, not the president or his “leadership council.”

More excerpts from excellent columns I’ve read.

Apathy all the way down.

“Major combat operations” are underway.

Enough is never enough.

The case has major implications beyond the taxation issue.

This is the United States today.

More data shows a more complicated picture.

Bill Clinton walks back his comments about extending the Bush Tax Cuts in the most unbelievable manner possible.

Sarah Palin will be heading to yet another important primary state while insisting she isn’t running for President yet. And the press follows her like a lonely puppy.

The ICC may issue a warrant for Gaddafi.

It’s Campaign Fact of Life No. 1: If you aren’t a factor in the race, you aren’t going to get free media.

Technology has saved the lives of countless American soldiers. But it’s made going to war easier.

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

Terry Jones may sue the City of Dearborn for its prior restraint actions against him. And he should.

One can almost hear the pitter-patter of American boots in the distance.

David Simon on the drug war, the underclass, and America’s seamy underbelly.

In all honesty, much of what is coming out of the mouths of self-described conservatives is actually pretty darn radical.

It took Andrew Sullivan 18 years to get his request for Permanent Resident status approved. That’s just absurd.

The Japan nuclear meltdown has now topped the scale used to measure such things, reaching the same level as the Chernobyl disaster. It’s a stupid scale.

Public disclosure of campaign contributions makes it easier for incumbents to pressure backers of their opponent.

Can most people learn the traits to be highly successful in business?

President Obama says he acted in Libya to avert an imminent genocide, but there’s no evidence that any such thing was about to occur.

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.”

Palin thinks Israel apologizes too much and it would seem that some find this to be a profound statement.

Michelle Malkin is unhappy about being part of joke on Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.

Republicans are starting to sour on Sarah Palin, meaning that they’re finally starting to catch up to the rest of the country.

John Kerry’s Washington Post op-ed supports U. S. leadership in establishing a no-fly zone in Libya.

The funny thing is that the quorum-busting in WI is more like a filibuster ought to be: a true delaying tactic that eventually has to give way to a democratic outcome.

Two new polls reflect the extent to which public attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed dramatically over the past twenty years, and it’s only a matter of time before that’s reflected in the law.

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

Yet again: to the Commerce Clause!

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

President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of the Defense Of Marriage Act on appeal was a proper and appropriate exercise of his authority as President Of The United States.

A former Democratic state attorney general thinks Wisconsin’s Republican governor may have violated state ethics laws while on a prank phone call.

Some conservatives are finally waking up and realizing what people like Glenn Beck are doing to the movement. It’s probably too late, though.

Is Saudi Arabia the next domino to fall in the Middle East? The Royal family is hoping that money will be enough to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Huge news in the marriage equality debate today as the Obama Administration has decided not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court anymore.

The Bahraini state appears willing to continue to use force against its population.

Michael Medved wishes that conservatives would stop implying that the President of the United States wants to destroy the United States.

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.