Outside the Beltway

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

Richard Cohen reports that people like Richard Cohen have lost their enthusiasm for Barack Obama.

What does the apparent outcome of the war in Libya mean for the so-called “Responsibility To Protect” doctrine?

How would a Democrat-equivalent of Rick Perry be received?

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

On reflection, the nature of Marcus Bachmann’s influence over his wife is indeed a legitimate question in a political campaign.

Presidents are not a powerful as they seem (and a return to the “are things broken?” theme).

The primary calendar is going to look very different next year.

You thought you’d seen the worst of Congress in July? Oh, you silly American you.

The two Minnesotans in the Presidential race are starting to trade barbs.

Move eases way to providing funding to the rebels.

It’s the marketing of college as a panacea that’s a scam, not college itself.

Just how significant is Sarah Palin in the grand scheme of things?

Congress had a chance to send a strong message to the Executive Branch today. They failed.

A retiree with some rather strange views hosted a Tim Pawlenty event.

Hillary Clinton is actively lobbying to be the next president of the World Bank, Reuters reports.

After a week of denial, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner admitted today that he had engaged in online relationships with several women.

Another sad chapter in the slow death of a once proud magazine.

Both sides in the John Edwards case are heading into uncharted territory.

The next shoe has dropped in the battle between campaign finance laws and the 1st Amendment.

The GOP doesn’t have a charismatic superstar waiting in the wings. That’s okay.

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

Presidential wannabe Jon Huntsman wrote some embarrassing letters about President Obama and the Clintons.

Donald Trump has been surging in polls of Republican voters recently, but that doesn’t mean much of anything.

Andrew Bacevich refers to Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power as “the Three Harpies.”

Ann Coulter says its time for Birthers to shut up.

The re-emergence of Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power to prominence has brought critics to the forefront

Michele Bachmann raised more money in the First Quarter of 2011 than any other Republican. Which means that she’ll have to be taken seriously if she decides to run for President.

President Obama has pledged no slaughter and no ground troops for Libya. He may well be forced to pick one.

Like all Presidents before him, Barack Obama is asserting the right to virtually unfettered discretion when it comes to military matters.

The “Obama Doctrine,” such as it is, seems to boil down to moral self-certainty combined with a glaring ignorance of reality. That’s a dangerous combination.