Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump canceled his speech at CPAC, but it’s unlikely to harm his campaign at all.

Conservatives are sending a message to Senate Republicans about the vacancy on the Supreme Court, and it may require them to initiate a suicidal game plan.

Hillary Clinton’s recently announced policies toward the ISIS fight are as incoherent and misguided as President Obama’s and those of her Republican opponents.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

What are the implications of the GOP winning this confrontation?

Some conservatives don’t seem too troubled by Vladimir Putin’s repression.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

The Canal made a number of impressions.

CPAC’s organizers have decided not to invite the most popular Governor in the country.

Once again, Utah’s former Governor is making sense.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The analyst actually wants to understand and be correct far more than he or she wants their preferences to prevail in the analysis

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a message for those who wear and have worn our country’s uniform: “We are not elected to serve; rather, we elect to serve.”