Outside the Beltway

Operation Odyssey Dawn has resurrected the eternal battle over what limits there are, and should be, on the President’s ability to use military force without Congressional authorization.

They’re letting anyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame these days.

There’s still time for Sarah Palin to burnish her political reputation. But she probably won’t.

Recent events in Wiscosin seem to undercut the hypothesis that public sector unions have undue political influence.

Illinois became the 16th state to abolish capital punishment today. That’s far too few.

The funny thing is that the quorum-busting in WI is more like a filibuster ought to be: a true delaying tactic that eventually has to give way to a democratic outcome.

As gas and oil prices rise, the pressure is increasing to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s a dumb idea.

In lieu of flowers, at Jim’s request, please make a donation to ANYONE running against Barack Hussein Obama

Players have taken control of the NBA from the owners. That’s bad for fans. But probably a good thing.

A commenter asks, “Why does Wisconsin have a quorum rule if not for situations like this?”

Republicans won the right to govern Wisconsin. What does that mean for Democrats?

Neither side is covering themselves in glory in the battle over the Badger State budget.

Being unemployed, especially in the long term, makes it less likely to get hired.

A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

Ron Paul has won the CPAC straw poll for a second straight year. But YAF has voted him off its board over his opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.

The Beast has released its The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, which I gather is supposed to be amusing rather than taken seriously.

Republicans in Idaho are talking about resurrecting the foolish and discredited idea of nullification as a weapon in the fight against ObamaCare.

It’s straw poll season already. First up, New Hampshire where things turned out about how you’d expect them to considering Mitt Romney lives there now.

Kay Bailey Hutchison will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate.

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

The American military personnel system works against keeping the best and brightest officers in the service.

The author of AZ’s SB1070 has a new idea.

A somewhat surprising court decision from the European Union gives a glimpse of what the situation in the United States would be if Roe v. Wade were overturned.

Frustrated that it couldn’t achieve desired environmental legislation despite huge majorities in both Houses of Congress, the Obama administration has decided to govern by executive fiat.

Red States should gain 10 seats while Blue States should lose eight.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.