Outside the Beltway

Should bloggers be treated the same as “journalists” for the purpose of the protections granted by media shield laws?

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

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

Partisan targeting by the IRS should not be permitted to stand.

Would more information about the Benghazi attacks have changed the outcome of the Presidential election?

For several years, Tea Party and other conservative groups have contended that they were being targeted for investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and it turns out that they were right.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

Former Justice O’Connor seems to regret the fact that the Supreme Court got involved in the 2000 election. Her regrets are misplaced.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

The Republican field for 2016 is more wide open than any we’ve seen in a long time.

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

Emily DePrang looks back at “‘Baghdad Bob’ and His Ridiculous, True Predictions.”

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.

Walter Russell Mead presents his sitrep of the War on Terror.

The GOP’s public image continues to be bad and there seems to be little sign that they’re doing anything to change that.

Pretending like the Bush administration never happened is a problem for the GOP.

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball isn’t being hypocritical in trusting Obama to decide which Americans to kill even though she wouldn’t have trusted Bush. But she’s being short-sighted.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

A potentially significant ruling on Separation Of Powers.

Bill Clinton has a warning for his fellow Democrats.

Looking at the data? Not very.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine,” is out.

Marco Rubio has some good immigration reform ideas. Will his fellow Republicans listen to him?

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

President Obama is taking some heat over the fact that his Second Term cabinet selections have been very white and very male.

Arab news giant Al-Jazeera is buying Al Gore’s failing Current TV network, hoping to get a bigger presence in the US cable market.

The Tea Party guys had a bad year.

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander during Operation Desert Storm, has died at the age of 78.

An attempt to declare the filibuster unconstitutional has ended in failure.

Ron Fournier details how Bill Clinton and George W. Bush taught him how to understand his son, Tyler, who has Asperger’s syndrome.

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public.

The Governor of Iowa thinks the Ames Straw Poll should be ended, but he really ought to go further than that.

Guess who’s back?