Outside the Beltway

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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.

DHS Secretary Napolitano issues some vague warnings to Congress.

If Mubarak is driven from power, will that make Egypt a case of “revolution”?

Glenn Beck seems to have more in common with End Time preachers than he does with a serious political analyst.

It seems to me that inactivity can have just as profound affects as activity and likewise that it is rather difficult to argue that health care isn’t part of interstate commerce.

Amy Chua captured the two things we fear most: the Chinese and our children.

Once again, it looks like efforts to reform the Senate’s filibuster rules have fallen victim to that old devil politics.

Demanding that the new GOP House hold the line at the current number is satisfying rhetorically, but all-but-impossible politically.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

David Kurtz reports, “House Republicans are about to use “deem and pass” — a.k.a., a self-executing rule — which you may recall was the same legislative mechanism they decried last year during the health care reform debate as a threat to all that is right and good about America.”