Outside the Beltway

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

According to some historians, a President isn’t truly great unless he involves America in a bloody and destructive war.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

What would have happened if Sarah Palin had decided to run for the Republican nomination this year?

The Romney campaign is pushing back on the “Republican War on Women” meme with this infographic on “Women & The Obama Economy.”

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

The White House and its allies have already declared war on a decision that won’t even be rendered until three months from now.

Obama has borrowed slightly more money in 3 years than Bush did in 8. Does it matter?

The debt has increased at a faster rate in the past three years than in the previous eight, but assigning blame isn’t what matters.

No, the Obama Administration is not plotting to nationalize the economy in the name of some “national emergency.”

Some Republicans seem intent on repeating the mistakes of 2008.

Rick Santorum’s campaign is starting to tilt at windmills.

Six states are likely to decide the 2012 election.

Would Rick Santorum be the frontrunner for the 2016 GOP nomination? Not necessarily.

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

Peter Berkowitz has presented a flawed legal argument for attacking Iran.

Nominating Rick Santorum may be the best things Republicans could do to save their party, but not for the reasons Santorum thinks.

2012 may be the last chance for the current Republican Party to win the White House.

Rick Santorum would do well to listen to the words of the last Catholic to be President of the United States.

In order to succeed on the right today, you have to do more than just say the President is wrong. You have to say that he’s evil.

Rick Santorum’s stump speeches have becoming increasingly dark.

It’s the beginning of the end for Newt Gingrich, but it’s unlikely he’ll recognize that fact.

Are the American people tuning out of politics altogether?

Romney continues to roll up decisive victories while Gingrich gets increasingly bitter and nasty.

The tinfoil hat crowd has made its way back into the mainstream.

The Birthers have suffered yet another totally predictable loss in Court.

Why is the Republican frontrunner pandering to a megalomanical showman?

If Romney loses in November, it could be the start of a bitter fight insider the Republican Party.

American politics is as polarized as ever, and it shows no signs of changing regardless of who wins in November.

Last night’s State Of The Union Address contained another unfortunate example of the prevalence of militaristic rhetoric in domestic politics.

Mitch Daniels got the unenviable task of responding to the State Of The Union Address last night.

He may be praising Ronald Reagan now, but Newt Gingrich was singing a different tune in the 1980s.

The reaction to the release of Mitt Romney’s tax returns is about what you’d expect.

Are the Republicans the party of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich? Or a viable contender for the White House?

Why are all the candidates for president so awful?

It’s not just low wages that have kept technology manufacturing jobs out of the United States.

Getting to the heart of last night’s moment of kabuki theater.

Ronald Reagan wasn’t really much a of a “Christian Conservative.”