Outside the Beltway

The scandal now surrounding David Petraeus should lead people to reassess his past record.

Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

Some troubling, sad, and downright puzzling stories

Congress has found Eric Holder to be in contempt. I am not entirely sure what that accomplishes.

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

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.

Shockingly, the “Springfield” in the long-running sittcom “The Simpsons” is Springfield, Oregon, near where creator Matt Groening grew up.

At least some of Mitt Romney”s investment money sits in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. Does it matter?

The US intelligence community has more information at its disposal than ever. Unfortunately, it can’t efficiently process it and make the necessary connections.

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

A major backer of Republican and Libertarian causes is under fire.

The latest revelations about Operation Fast And Furious raise more questions than they answer.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.

Daniel Indiviglio makes “The Case for Making Wages Public: Better Pay, Better Workers.”

A Presidential candidate’s medical condition is entirely relevant to their fitness for office.

While Gerrymandering Congressional districts to benefit incumbents and the dominant party in the state legislature is an old game, they play it with especial intensity in Illinois.

The question of how the world’s most wanted man could’ve hidden in plain sight in Pakistan continues to be asked.

The birthers are dead (kinda), so long live the transcripters!

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is speaking positively about an Amendment that would drastically alter the relationship between the Federal Government and the states, and a method of ratifying it that could do serious damage to the Constitution as a whole.

A crippling, and technologically advanced, computer virus and attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists lead to only one conclusion; someone is doing everything they can short of military action to make sure Iran doesn’t develop nuclear weapons.

The Federal Reserve is injecting $ 600,000,000,000 into the economy, primarily in the hope that it will boost stock prices and, in turn, the economy. It might work, but if it doesn’t the consequences could be severe.

In what is being described as the largest leak of secret documents in U.S. history, Wikileaks has made public more than 400,000 documents related to the seven year long Iraq War.

The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

As much hubris as it takes to think you can be the Leader of the Free World, it takes even more to buck the advice of the Establishment.

The Obama administration has persuaded the nation’s most liberal appellate court that the executive branch’s right to secrecy trumps the rights of people claiming they were tortured by the United States Government.

“I don’t condone leaking secrets. But nor do I condone a policy that can only work in secret.” – Bernard Finel

It’s going to be much harder for reporters to get access to the military thanks to new rules announced last night by the Pentagon.

If you know where the JournoList archive is, Andrew Breitbart has got some cash for you.