Outside the Beltway

Even as it defies China’s illegal territorial claims with military flights, the Obama administration is urging US airlines to comply.

Politics aside, the challenges to the PPACA’s birth control mandate raise important legal issues.

A State Department announcement about consolidation of diplomatic posts in Rome has led to the latest round of Obama Derangement Syndrome.

The Obama White House dropped some big news as everyone headed out of town.

The Justice Department is reportedly not planning to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in connection with the Bradley Manning case.

China sends a message, and the U.S. responds. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases that implicates both the First Amendment and two Federal Laws.

Another conflict between the Obama Administration and a news media that is frustrated about the extent they are being controlled by being refused access.

Small steps from both sides in the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but too early to say that we’ve reached a solution.

Imagine all these people talking on the cellphones during a long flight, or even a short one.

The mounting troubles of the PPACA continue.

The Imperial Presidency didn’t start with Barack Obama, but his PPACA “fix” does much to expand it into questionable new territory.

Congressional Democrats are not very pleased with the White House right now.

As expected, the enrollment numbers for Obamacare are far below where they were expected to be.

A story that has turned into a partisan kickball and some bad journalism have resulted in a celebrated news program getting considerable egg on its face.

A second Federal Court of Appeals in a week in two weeks has ruled the PPACA’s birth control mandate is unconstitutional.

Signs of some progress in the talks over Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

A bizarre hit piece in National Journal gives the false impression that our military leaders are considering removing the president.

Another Federal Court has declared the PPACA’s contraceptive coverage mandate to be unconstitutional.

“If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.” Well, not really.

According to reports, the President had no idea that the NSA was listening to the phone calls of foreign leaders until this summer.

The latest revelations about National Security Agency surveillance outside the United States have caused quite an uproar overseas.

The prospect of Congressional action on immigration before the midterms just got a whole lot less likely.

Is Iran really just one month from producing a nuclear weapon?

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to have soured in recent years.

The bad roll out of the Affordable Care Act is starting to lead to calls for delays in enforcement of the law.

Jofi Joseph was unmasked as the obnoxious @NatSecWonk and fired by the White House.

Immigration reform may be the next big battle on Capitol Hill, but it’s going to be far different from the one that just concluded.

The GOP’s shutdown was about as pointless as a show about waiting for a table in a Chinese restaurant.

Why the federal government is so bad at information technology and getting worse by the day.

So much for the most transparent Administration in history.

The U.S. sends a mostly weak signal to the Egyptian military.

One cannot support the shutdown tactic and then be outraged that part of the government is shutdown.

One of the dumber aspects of the current shutdown repeats itself.

The Pentagon is recalling up to 300,000 furloughed civilian employees on the same day that Congress voted to pay all furloughed employees when the government reopens.

The NFL donates its game broadcasts to troops deployed in harm’s way but they still won’t get to see them during the shutdown.

The United States and Russia have agreed to the framework of a deal to turn over Syrian chemical weapons.

A throwaway comment by John Kerry in London has led to some interesting diplomatic developments.

Heading into an intense week of Congressional lobbying, the odds still seem against the Administration on Syria.

President Obama has decided not to enforce a law. This is most unusual and somewhat disturbing.