Outside the Beltway

A Washington Post fact check calls this “true but false.”

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

The Netherlands is considering a new animal cruelty law that would effectively ban kosher and halal slaughter practices.

Why isn’t the GOP calling out religious bigotry from one of its candidates?

Despite what appear to be the fond hope of European central bankers that it will just all go away, something needs to be done. But what?

Holland is going to make it harder for tourists to smoke marijuana.

Mohandas Ghandi pioneered the idea of non-violent resistance, but there are times and places where non-violence is little more than a ticket to a death camp.

America’s obsession over the fate of the Burlington Coat Factory in Lower Manhattan, and a general rise in anti-Islamic rhetoric, plays right into the hands of the people that are actually our enemies.

Holland became the first NATO member to pull out of Afghanistan. How long before the rest follow?

The world would undoubtedly be a better place if Islamic fundamentalism reached even 19^th century Western notions of individualism and gender equality. But cultures evolve over decades, and bans on their practices are not useful means of promoting positive change within them.

The Netherlands will immediately begin using full body scanners for flights heading to the United States to prevent future terrorist attacks like the foiled Christmas Day attempt.