Outside the Beltway

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

Vilifying Thomas Jefferson is as much as mistake as placing him on a pedestal.

My latest for The New Republic, “America’s Scandalous Drone War Goes Unmentioned in the Campaign,” is out.

Regardless of how the Court rules on the Affordable Care Act, the upcoming election has the potential to reshape the Court for decades to come.

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.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

The vetting process for a Vice-Presidential running mate will likely be very different with memories of the Sarah Palin debacle fresh in everyone’s mind.

Mitt Romney made a suggestion about how to fix our campaign finance system. It’s a good idea.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

Should Ron Paul find his currently upward trajectory to continue he will find himself facing greater media (and opposition) scrutiny.

Pundits love to speculate about new candidates entering the race and spicing things up. This will all be academic quite soon because filing dates in key states are fast approaching.

Rick Perry’s position on immigration-related issues could be a problem for the same conservatives who have been getting behind him.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

The Supreme Court is being asked to decided if Congress can overrule a foreign policy position the U.S. has held since 1948.

To paraphrase Rumsfeld: you go to the ballot box with the candidate you have, not the candidate you want, or would like to have.

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

Statue of Liberty goes through airport scanner.

What will Republicans think of a candidate for President who admitted to smoking marijuana as recently as two years ago?

Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.

JournoList’s archives have been making headlines at The Daily Caller, but there doesn’t seem to be any substance to the allegations of scandal.

Ron Paul’s newsletters are proof either that he’s a racist or a fraud.