Outside the Beltway

The truth about a Second Obama Term is that it likely wouldn’t be all that remarkable.

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

Michael Hastings has yet another credulous story attempting to smear the United States military.

When did serving your country become something political opponents attacked you for?

Last night, Ron Paul decided it was a good idea to bring back the ghosts of the Vietnam War era.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

82nd Airborne solider David Hickman was the 4474th American serviceman killed in Iraq. He should be the last.

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

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Looking at the intellectual jumble that is the mind of Newt.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

President Obama ended the tradition of native costumes for the APEC Summit.

The Republican candidates for President have been mostly silent about foreign policy issues. That changes starting tonight.

If Occupy protestors getting hit by cars in two cities is the beginning of a trend, so is a second Iraq War veteran being seriously injured by police during the Occupy Oakland protestors.

Andy Rooney, best known to recent generations as the cranky old man at the end of “60 Minutes,” has died at 92.

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

This is looking less crazy, less sudden, and less an exercise in presidential whimsy than it seemed.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faces obstacles its Tea Party counterpart didn’t.

American has real economic and social problems. But the solution in on Capitol Hill, not Wall Street.

Even those sympathetic to the causes are frustrated with the squalor and other negative externalities of the protests.

Are the worries about China overtaking the United States realistic?

Protestors have converged on DC, rallying against Afghanistan, Wall Street, and stuff.

It turns out there are some jobs immigrants will do, but Americans won’t

Does America have a social contract? If so, is it broken?

Far from being an existential crisis, the recent rise in public distrust in government is easily explained.

It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people manage to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that their political philosophy has massive support.

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

Rick Perry declared, “One of the reasons that I’m running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.”

Michele Bachmann is claiming that the debt downgrade proves she was right about not raising the debt ceiling.

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

Former Oregon governor and long-time US Senator Mark Hatfield has died.

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.

Some on the left are upset with the President, but does it really matter?

Thomas Ricks makes the case that JFK was the worst President of his century but his argument misses the mark.

Leon Panetta has been brought in to oversee significant cuts to the U.S. Defense budget. Meanwhile, we’re in six wars.

The draft ended in 1973. It’s effects still linger today.

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

160 million girls are “missing” owing to selective abortion and cultural preferences for male children.