Outside the Beltway

The U.S. and its allies are calling on Bashar Assad to step down, but there’s little we can do when he says no.

Political journalists are asking clumsy, ignorant, and intolerant questions. Film at 11.

Rick Perry declared, “One of the reasons that I’m running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.”

International options with respect to Syria are limited and likely to have little impact on the governments treatment of civilians.

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

A take on the conflict that’s probably different from the one you’ve been reading.

Once again, the debt ceiling deal is raising questions about the President’s leadership.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

Freshman GOP Representative Allen West is a loose cannon and unfit for office.

Is NATO prepared for what happens when they win?

Move eases way to providing funding to the rebels.

The White House has apparently rejected using a tortured interpretation of the 14th Amendment to deal with the debt ceiling debate.

Whatever happened to the GOP’s promise to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act?

The US handing Libya over to NATO is “like Beyonce saying she’s ceding control to Sasha Fierce!” – Jon Stewart

Not exactly an example of moral leadership.

Barack Obama’s leadership style may be his undoing.

Does a little known provision in the 14th Amendment make the entire debt ceiling debate irrelevant?

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

The selective application of international law is here to stay.

A Tea Party favorite gets asked a tough question,and a Fox News host finds himself forced to apologize.

Is Gaddafi offering a way out?

Yes, you read that correctly.

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

Ppartisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge. This is a bad sign for the Republic.

A few Republicans have picked up on John McCain’s criticism of critics of the Libya mission as being “isolationist.”

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

Is Congress set to vote to authorize military action in Libya?