Outside the Beltway

The White House’s assertion that Libya isn’t covered by the War Powers Act isn’t being accepted on Capitol Hill.

A retiree with some rather strange views hosted a Tim Pawlenty event.

The Obama Administration tells Congress that it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act because the Act does not apply to the mission in Libya.

Dennis Kucinich and nine other Members of Congress are suing the President. They won’t get very far.

Ousting evil dictators is harder than it looks.

A very provocative decision on same-sex marriage from an unlikely source.

Don’t confuse moderation in tone with moderation in beliefs.

The War Powers Act’s 90 day limit is in sight. Will Congress force the president’s hand?

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

The American public is increasingly skeptical of foreign adventurism. Why aren’t our political candidates reflecting that?

Hillary Clinton is actively lobbying to be the next president of the World Bank, Reuters reports.

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

It was a good day in Court for opponents of the Affordable Care Act.

Austan Goolsbee is resigning as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to return to the University of Chicago.

Another appellate panel heard arguments on the Constitutionality of the health care reform law this week.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

Obama brings rapid response, blogger “hand holding” in-house.

Comparing Obama to Carter on foreign policy (especially in terms of electoral politics) doesn’t make sense.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

The Obama Administration is offering an odd explanation for why it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

Once again, an American President thinks he can bring peace to the Middle East.

Senate fails to revoke tax cuts for big oil.

Ohio State researchers: ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs.

As of today, the United States is legally barred from borrowing money to finance its operations. Thanks for nothing, Congress.

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.

The first round of appellate arguments over the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act took place today in Richmond, Virginia.

Boehner wants some pretty big cuts in exchange for a vote on raising the debt ceiling.

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

President Obama chided the media for paying too much attention to the birther issue, but his criticism was unwarranted.

A major law firm has withdrawn from defending DOMA in Court, and a public controversy has erupted.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

The Pentagon is frustrated that the Obama administration doesn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do.”

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.