Outside the Beltway

The odds are against anyone who challenges an incumbent President. So, how do you do it?

What are the limits on government power?

The US spends more government money on healthcare per capita than the likes of Germany, France, Canada, Sweden, and Holland!

The conservative columnist argues Republicans should concentrate on winning back the Senate and stopping Obama through 2016.

Requiring a religious institution to comply with civilian laws is not a violation of religious liberty.

If the Right clings to the belief that President Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil, it will likely end up handing the election to him.

Mitt Romney is taking heat for his role at Bain Capital. He shouldn’t.

Executive summary: She’s a kook unfit to serve as dog catcher, much less leader of the free world.

Understanding the state of the GOP field requires recognizing that President Obama is actually pretty moderate.

Mitt Romney’s first television ad is built around a Barack Obama quote that has been cropped so that he’s saying the opposite of what he actually said.

“Democratic” pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen argue that President Obama should decline to run for re-election.

Will we wind up with a backdoor mandate? Or a single payer system?

Questions have been raised about whether it is proper for Elena Kagan to hear the Affordable Care Act lawsuit.

The Supreme Court will decide on the Constitutionality of the President’s health care law by June 2012.

Jon Huntsman’s campaign has never really gotten off the ground. Will conservatives start taking him more seriously?

Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected a Republican law restricting the collective bargaining rights of public employees–and also rebuked the health insurance mandate central to ObamaCare.

The PPACA now has a 3-1 record in US appeals courts.

Rick Perry’s tax plan isn’t very impressive.

One of the less ballyhooed parts of ObamaCare has been tossed aside as too expensive before it even went into effect.

Obama’s Justice Department continues its crackdown on medical marijuana, despite campaign promises to the contrary.

Romney consolidated his position as the presumptive nominee, Perry continued his disintegration, Cain discovered what it was like to be a serious candidate, and Bachmann doubled down on crazy.

American has real economic and social problems. But the solution in on Capitol Hill, not Wall Street.

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

Sarah Palin is out for 2012

Mitt Romney is once again the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

The health care battle is formally joined in the Supreme Court.

Despite all the negatives going against him, Mitt Romney may yet be the inevitable Republican nominee.

The Supreme Court is on track to issue its most anticipated ruling in years right in the middle a Presidential campaign.

Are we placing far too much importance on how someone does in a two hour so-called “debate”?

The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.

Where do we stand after 224 years?

Last week’s opinions from the Fourth Circuit provide an avenue for the Supreme Court to avoid an early ruling on the individual mandate.

Both Virginia lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act have been dismissed by a Federal Appeals Court.

There were eight people on the stage last night, but the GOP field has narrowed significantly.

Obama’s economic policies are failing because he’s listening to conservatives – not small businesses.

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

Although he didn’t get the words quite right yesterday, Mitt Romney was exactly right about corporations.

A somewhat surprising First Amendment decision arising out of the 2010 Elections.

Another government program isn’t going to bring health care costs under control.

The two Minnesotans in the Presidential race are starting to trade barbs.

The idea that the GOP can block a debt ceiling vote and benefit politically is, quite simply, absurd.

While unemployment remains stubbornly high, Washington is spending its time fighting over the budget deficit

Whatever happened to the GOP’s promise to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act?

What exactly is the GOP trying to accomplish in the debt ceiling negotiations?