Outside the Beltway

Don’t try to hand out academic editorials at an academic convention!

Congress is defying the President on Iran, Ukraine, the slush fund, and more.

Plus I indulge in a little political fantasizing.

Examples from TX and KY.

Looking ahead, hopefully with some purpose.

A requiem for something lost.

We can forgive the raping, graft, election stealing, and warmongering. But this goes too far!

Sounding a barbaric yawp over the streets of the world.

In front of our noses: Authoritarian symbolism. (Yes, a cross-over ep!)

The iconic labor leader had a dark secret.

Energy prices are likely to be affected for some time.

The regime is not a -changin’.

Little Marco has come a long way.

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.

A general conversation and a lot of specifics about RFK. Jr.

More data shows a more complicated picture.

Of party, duty, age, and political roulette.

The court, rightly, punted the issue to Congress and local leaders.

Young people acting selfishly is a fact of life.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in public. Testimony that is likely to be the big story of the summer.

We already know enough to impeach.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

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?