Outside the Beltway

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

A new book by one of the Navy SEALs involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden differs significantly from the official version put forward by the government.

Tropical Storm Isaac won’t be as much of a danger to Tampa as feared, but it’s still having an impact. That’s all because of bad scheduling ideas.

A true pioneer passed away today.

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

John Cole takes exception to my recent summary of recent Obama campaign highlight.

Think the auto bailout was a success? Think again.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.

The combination of falling oil prices and increased exports has the US trade deficit at its lowest point since December 2010.

Romney’s new ad on a ruling issued by HHS on welfare-to-work requirements doesn’t pass the smell test.

Drudge Report says Team Obama thinks CIA Director David Petraeus will be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

An important ruling on the Obama Administration’s contraceptive coverage mandate from a Judge in Colorado.

Two words spoken by a Romney aide have led to a ridiculous firestorm on the right, while the rest of their comments are being ignored.

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

The Romney campaign is trying to shift the narrative.

Democratic rhetoric since the Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare raises the question of whether they made a political mistake.

It’s never a good thing when an Administration is investigating itself.

In his ruling on the ObamaCare cases, Chief Justices Roberts reached back to a judicial philosophy with roots in men like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Felix Frankfurter.

Congress has found Eric Holder to be in contempt. I am not entirely sure what that accomplishes.

Chief Justice Roberts sided with a majority in upholding the individual mandate and, indeed, all but some trivial portions of the Affordable Care Act.

Thanks to a surprising decision by Chief Justice Roberts, the Affordable Care Act has survived the Constitutional challenges against it.

Regardless of how the Court rules on the Affordable Care Act, the upcoming election has the potential to reshape the Court for decades to come.

A Fortune Magazine investigation puts a new spin on Operation Fast And Furious, but questions still remain.

Justice Scaiia’s dissent in Arizona v. United States included many odd forays into areas that had nothing to do with the case before him.

There’s no evidence that Fast & Furious, whatever it was, was a conspiracy to lobby for tighter gun control laws.

America’s Drug War has caused more problems for Mexico than Fast & Furious ever will.

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

The Supreme Court left the most important part of SB1070 intact, but it faces serious challenges in the future.

Issa, Holder, and a little Madison.

The conspiracy theories regarding Fast And Furious are simply not believable, but that doesn’t mean the matter shouldn’t be investigated.

Fast and furious, or a lot of sound and fury signifying not too much?

Is there any legal merit to the Administration’s invocation of Executive Privilege?