Outside the Beltway

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

A new ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals raises a host of questions.

So far, Hermain Cain seems to be doing okay in the polls.

Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.

President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of the 30,000 Surge troops.

For the first time, Donald Trump is leading a poll for the GOP 2012 nomination. That’s bad news for the GOP.

Time for midterms.

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

Pundits and partisans constantly overreact to the momentary mood expressed in a single election. The Republicans have already rebounded from 2008. The Democrats will recover from 2010.

The CBO sees a clear threat of a fiscal crisis during the next two decades unless we’re saved by magic ponies.

America’s mission in Iraq is shifting from an active combat role to a smaller security presence. But the war that gripped our attention for years is now off the radar screen.

General Stanley McChrystal retired with full honors while being lauded by the Secretary of Defense.

Is Ann Coulter’s defense of Michael Steele’s Afghan War skepticism the beginning of conservative split, or just an attempt to pile on President Obama ?