Outside the Beltway

The Obama White House is not ruling out targeted strikes against Americans inside American territory.

Apparently, not the Onion.

The White House is backing an effort to overturn a bizarre ruled recently enacted by the Library of Congress

The Obama Administration has weighed in on the Supreme Court’s other high profile same-sex marriage case.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released from detention ahead of possible budget cuts.

A federal judge poses an interesting question in a case over Obama’s contraceptive mandate.

Ezra Klein argues that the voters already decided how the sequestration fight should play out.

A theory on why Benghazi will not die as a political issue.

The Obama administration is promising massive cuts in public-facing services in the face of minuscule “cuts” to the budget.

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball isn’t being hypocritical in trusting Obama to decide which Americans to kill even though she wouldn’t have trusted Bush. But she’s being short-sighted.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Samantha Power is leaving the Obama administration to spend more time with her family. No, really.

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

January’s Jobs Report wasn’t much to write home about

A potentially significant ruling on Separation Of Powers.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.

Looking at the data? Not very.

The Weekly Standard is proud that Mitt Romney’s intentionally false Jeep ad was technically true.

Fitch is out this morning with a warning on the nation’s credit rating that both Republicans and Democrats need to listen to.

President Obama is taking some heat over the fact that his Second Term cabinet selections have been very white and very male.

The idea of completely pulling out of Afghanistan after 2014 is very compelling.

Stony Brook finance prof Noah Smith writes, “The Single Best Anti-Gun-Death Policy? Ending the Drug War.”

President Obama’s recent statements on the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington are not consistent with his own Administration’s policies.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

Has Petraeus provided the basic explanation for the administration’s immediate responses to Benghazi?

People continue to spread conspiracy theories explaining the “real reason” that David Petraeus’s extra-marital affair became public.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

Once again, Senate Democrats are talking about filibuster reform, but will they actually follow through?