Outside the Beltway

Score one for Team Bush?

Prism ain’t got nothin’ on the Hemisphere Project.

The president’s public dithering on Syria is drawing jeers from friend and foe alike.

Some questions that the Administration needs to answer before attacking Syria.

Humanitarian wars have their own grammar but not their own logic.

Some Members of Congress are calling for a debate before any strikes on Syria. They’re absolutely right.

Persuasion is sometimes an important part of being president.

The White House confirmed today that the goal of any military intervention in Syria would be very limited. Which makes one wonder what the point of doing anything actually is.

There’s more than one way to look at the civil war in Syria.

John Kerry’s speech was the crossing of the Rubicon for US military action in Syria.

Western military action in the Syrian civil war now appears likely.

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.

Walter Russell Mead explains why a well intentioned, carefully crafted and consistently pursued grand strategy failed.

Reports of the death of the Voting Rights Act have been greatly exaggerated.

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is the latest conservative to endorse the foolish idea of a Constitutional Convention.

The Syrian regime may have used chemical weapons again, this time in an even larger and more deadly attack.

With more than a little hyperbole, George Will declares “Obama’s unconstitutional steps worse than Nixon’s.”

The Obama administration has issued a strongly worded statement on this morning’s massacre by the Egyptian government.

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, but is still likely to spend most of his life in prison.

The US backed Egyptian government is massacring supporters of the ousted democratically elected government.

Not surprisingly, the United States is not going to place aid to Egypt’s military in legal jeopardy by calling this month’s events a coup.

Conservatives are doing what they criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

The two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are clashing on defense appropriations.

Americans tell pollsters that hate Congress, but they never seem to do anything about it.

Time to “pivot to the economy” again.

A Federal Judge wasn’t very pleased when Administration lawyers told her that she doesn’t have jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit over the President’s drone policy.

Secretary of State Kerry becomes the latest American official to wade into the Middle East’s longest lasting quagmire.

Once again, a Federal Court rules that the First Amendment rules does not protect a reporter from being compelled to reveal sources or the results of an investigation.

Evidence that George Zimmerman acted out of racial bias is completely lacking, which means the Federal Government should stay out of this case entirely.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

President Obama is losing public support in the one area where he’s generally had broad support from the public in the past.

The latest House GOP pronouncements on immigration reform make it exceedingly unlikely that any bill will pass this year.

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.

Frustrations with the mercurial leader of Afghanistan may increase the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Some thoughts on the ongoing situation in Egypt.

Michael Donley announced he was stepping down as Secretary of the Air force in April and did so in June. No replacement has been named.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

Forget about the budget deficit and spending. The Tea Party apparently now considers stopping immigration reform to be its most important task.