Outside the Beltway

Virginia could be the state that decides who controls the United States Government.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

Mitt Romney’s intransigence over releasing more tax returns is politically stupid.

Mitt Romney’s campaign is mishandling their response to the Bain story, and hurting the candidate in the process.

John Boehner speaks an inconvenient, for Mitt Romney at least, truth.

If the GOP wins in November, there will be very few actual barriers in the way if they really want to repeal the PPACA.

Electing Romney hardly means repeal of the PPACA, even if he will make it sound that way.

The Republican strategy on health care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision needs some tweaking.

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

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

Are the Stuxnet and Flame attacks the opening shots in a dangerous new era of secret war?

It’s a wonder the Constitution gets followed at all.

With the Supreme Court’s decision imminent, many supporters of the PPACA are starting to second guess the Obama Administration’s legal strategy.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

Issa, Holder, and a little Madison.

The Veepstakes doesn’t matter nearly as much as the media tells you it does.

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

Thomas Friedman continues his quixotic quest for a third party. His candidate: a fantasy Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney faces the same resistance to the idea of a Mormon President that his father did when he ran for President four decades ago.

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

Rand Paul calls Mitt Romney out over his comments about Presidential War Powers.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Let’s leave Egypt to the Egyptians.

Neil Munro acted like a jerk, but Barack Obama needs to be more open to questions than he has been.

Both candidates are telling the public that they can change the way Washington works. They’re both setting themselves up to be the source of major disappointment.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

The main problem is governing should be different than simplistic rhetoric.

The President’s Cabinet is less a Team Of Rivals and more a Team Of Managers.

A Bill Clinton parody account created by the Romney campaign is both clever and yet another sign of what’s wrong with American politics.

What lessons can we draw from the Wisconsin Recall?

Mitt Romney thinks prospective Presidents should be required to have business experience.

The official portrait of George W. Bush, the 43rd president, was unveiled at the White House yesterday. The ceremony was a rare display of political humor and grace.

For the first time in 68 years, neither major party candidate for President has served in the military. Does this matter?

A new book about the President details his marijuana use in High School and at Occidental College.

Mitt Romney gained some ground in Swing State polling, but that just makes clear how narrow his path to 270 Electoral Votes actually is.

Does the fizzled out Facebook IPO tell us anything about the state of the economy? Not really.

States actually have constitutional authority over the selection of electors, not of the president.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.