Outside the Beltway

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has struck down a US basing rights deal.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, appearing on San Francisco’s KCBS radio, called for an investigation in the efforts to stop the building of a Muslim cultural center at the hallowed Burlington Coat Factory location blocks from Ground Zero.

Given public opinion on the proposed Islamic community center that is currently cominating the news, we would expect that opposition to the project would be strongest in Manhattan itself.

If it was called the “Burlington Coat Factory community center” would anyone care about Cordoba House?

Harry Reid has spent the summer trying to portray is opponent as a kook. So far, it’s working.

There’s not as much conservative unity on the gay marriage issue as there used to be.

Mitch McConnell and Al Franken provide a lesson in Senate comity.

Senate Republicans want to rethink the 14th Amendment’s automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.

A number of disturbing incidents point towards increased anti-Islam hostility in the United States.

The United States Congress is starting to resemble a grade-school playground.

The Anti-Defamation League has taken an unfortunate stand on a issue involving religious tolerance and bigotry.

A new poll claims that the health care reform law is now supported by a majority of Americans. Don’t believe it.

While President Obama is pushing the Afghanistan surge, large numbers of elected Democrats are demanding we get out.

The Lt. Governor of Tennessee suggested recently that religious freedom possibly shouldn’t apply to Muslims, but he’s only part of the problem.

Some principles transcend political borders.

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

The testiest exchange during today’s hearings in the Senate came when Jeff Sessions tried to confront Elena Kagan over military recruiting at Harvard Law School, and failed miserably.

The House GOP Leader is proposing that we get serious about Social Security reform.

Rick Moran is noticing an odd pattern in political discourse.

The late Senator Robert Byrd’s legacy as the master of pork barrel spending is secure.

The public is growing tired of America’s Longest War.

Magazines routinely run great pieces by highly biased writers. Why can’t newspapers do the same?

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

CNN is launching a debate program featuring one host from the Left and another from the Right. Why not call it “Crossfire”?

While praise for the military often goes overboard, the reaction to the McChrystal flap shows our armed forces at their finest.