Outside the Beltway

Feeling abandoned by the Republican Party, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson is weighing a Libertarian Party bid for president.

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

After all, securing the border is easy and the forces driving cross-border illicit activities can be curtailed with enough force and security.

Another bad meme from the GOP.

Gary Johnson is right to be upset that he’s been excluded from debates, but he shouldn’t get the government involved.

Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected a Republican law restricting the collective bargaining rights of public employees–and also rebuked the health insurance mandate central to ObamaCare.

Despite the seeming odds against him, the Electoral College map is very favorable for President Obama.

Are America’s political parties become irrelevant?

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

Like his tax plan, Herman Cain’s immigration plan is not serious.

It turns out there are some jobs immigrants will do, but Americans won’t

What was written on a rock outside of a hunting lodge in Texas 30 years ago doesn’t really matter all that much.

The first two months of Rick Perry’s campaign are a good example of why it helps to start a Presidential campaign early.

He suggested the possibility of sending troops to Mexico to fight drug cartels.

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

Another entry in the ongoing follies of US border and immigration policy.

The latest revelations about Operation Fast And Furious raise more questions than they answer.

Rick Perry has stumbled out of the gate, but he’ll be in this race for the long haul

Should it matter if a teacher has an accent?

Rick Perry’s immigration positions aren’t at all unreasonable, and that presents a problem for him inside the Republican Party.

Two-term New Mexico governor finally gets to share the stage with Herman Cain.

Republicans have a plan to wrest half of the Keystone State’s electors from Obama.

A record 46 million Americans are living in poverty.

Killing’s our business and business is good.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Why was the ATF allowing thousands of weapons to be smuggled to Mexican drug gangs?

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

Rick Perry’s position on immigration-related issues could be a problem for the same conservatives who have been getting behind him.

Rick Perry may be much less than meets the eye.

The First Lady takes a lot of days off from her unpaid “job.”

State-level job approval numbers seem to suggest that the President could have Electoral College worries in 2012.

Rick Perry’s entry into the race could quickly turn the 2012 GOP fight into a two man race.

He’s not in the race (yet), but Rick Perry is already a top-tier 2012 candidate.

Are the new crop of GOP governors too conservative?

Yes, China’s GDP growth has been impressive for some time now, but it is not the sole way to understand development.

The US Supreme Court declined to stay the execution of a child raping murderer over a technical violation of a treaty.

Illegal immigration from Mexico is down substantially, and it has nothing to do with all those anti-immigration laws.