Outside the Beltway

It’s beginning to look like initial reports that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill had been “cleaned up” may not be true after all.

Tonight’s topics: the Blagojevich verdict, whether lying about military awards should be protected speech, the politics of the Cordoba House project, the coherence or lack thereof of the Obama administration, and whether the United States should be more like Germany.

Again, despite the rhetoric of some, the US does continue to enforce laws relevant to the border and, indeed, enforcement has been on the rise.

A year ago, President Obama was emphatically against raising taxes during the recession — even on the rich.

Barack Obama has significantly widened his predecessor’s global war on terrorism, even if he’s no longer calling it that.

Senior staffers are already leaving the Obama administration due to burn-out. But are 18-hour days really necessary for running the White House?

Every new report out of Iran seems to bring us closer to the moment when Israel has decided it’s heard enough. What happens if that day actually happens ?

The White House seems to be getting annoyed at the criticism coming it’s way from the left.

The First Family can go on vacation, but politics never does.

Sharron Angle’s views about the role of religion in politics are disturbingly similar to those of people who believe that the Bible itself should be the law of the land.

This year’s Zogby poll of public opinion in the Middle East exhibits a marked shift on the Obama Administration, Iran.

Another bad jobs report demonstrates that the “recovery” is an illusion for many people.

The Obama Administration is dismissing the results of a referendum in Missouri that purports to strike down health insurance mandates.

The American military is on a mission in Afghanistan that the public is increasingly starting to question.

As the campaign in Kentucky heats up for the final sprint to November, Rand Paul seems to have succeeded in moving beyond many of the mis-steps that plagued him three months ago.

A Federal District Court Judge has allowed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s health care reform law filed by the Commonwealth of Virginia to proceed.

General Motors, and Barack Obama, are betting the future on a car that may be nothing more than an electric lemon.

The latest GDP numbers are nothing but bad news for Democrats.

The Obama administration is refusing to enforce border security, right?

The Obama administration wants the FBI to be able to look at your Internet records without the inconvenience of respecting your 4th Amendment rights.

Will the Wikileaks document dump give even further impetus to the growing sentiment that the United States needs to leave Afghanistan ?

Today’s outrage of the day comes in the form of a new report claiming that the United States supported the release of the only man accused. But the report itself proves that isn’t what happened.

According to Maureen Dowd, Barack Obama’s biggest problem is that there are too many white people in this picture.

Congress and the White House are starting to stake out sides in the upcoming battle over extending the Bush tax cuts.

General Stanley McChrystal retired with full honors while being lauded by the Secretary of Defense.

If Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann gets her way, the 112th Congress will feature a lot of committees “investigating” the Obama Administration.

Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.

Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

Recent debates over the economic and fiscal impact of the Bush tax cuts indicate that Republicans still haven’t learned the lessons of the Bush years.

In Court filings the Obama Administration is arguing that the health insurance mandate is a tax, and if they’re right the legal challenges to ObamaCare are dead.

As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.

American businesses are sitting on a big pile of cash, and giving no indication that they have any intention of spending it any time soon.

You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.

The Obama Administration seems to be saying that “Blame Bush” will be at the core of their re-election strategy. Good idea ? Not really.

The White House is making some very odd political choices in its response to the Arizona immigration law.

Another new poll brings bad news for Democrats and the President.

The legal battle over immigration began today as the Obama Administration filed suit against Arizona over its new immigration law.

So much for the Obama Administration’s “Summer of Recovery.”

The health care reform law faced it’s first legal test in a Courtroom in Virginia yesterday.

President Obama’s powers of persuasion were severely lacking at the G-20 Summit this weekend.

The European drive — led by Germany, naturally — to tighten spending to get their fiscal house in order and the Obama administration’s insistence on Keynesian stimulus will make for tense negotiations at the G20 Summit.

Despite repeated promises to the contrary, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will be remaining open indefinitely.