Outside the Beltway

Bill McClellan calls for ending military funeral honors for most veterans.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

The American tax code contains perverse incentives and barriers to getting out of poverty.

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

Could a coin like this solve the looming debt ceiling crisis?

It’s time to start thinking outside the box when it comes to disaster relief.

Our politicians have averted an artificial crisis of their own making. The next one’s in two months.

The GOP’s image problems continue

Richard Lugar puts in a word for compromise and good governance on his way out of the Senate.

The Air Force has a leadership crisis.

In a NYT op-ed titled “The Monster of Monticello” Paul Finkelman expresses his befuddlement that people play down Thomas Jefferson’s legacy as a slave owner.

Harvard’s pet conservative offers a critique of the Democratic Party that reads like something from the OTB comments section.

Judging by the record of the past decade and a half, movement conservatism has accomplished very little.

Obama thinks he has a mandate to raise taxes on high earners. Republicans think they have a mandate to stop him.

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

Mitt Romney has ground to make up if he’s going to catch the President and there’s not much time left to do it.

Do we really need to guard the Tomb of the Unknowns in the midst of a hurricane?

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

One of Mitt Romney’s own supporters didn’t like his foreign policy speech very much.

In order to win, Mitt Romney needs the support of a large segment of the 47% of the populace he wrote off back in May.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

Senator Rand Paul suggests the GOP may want to reconsider its foreign policy aggressiveness.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

The GOP claims to be a party that favors limited government, but its foreign policy positions reveal this to be little more than a lie.

Paul Ryan did what he needed to do last night, but in the long run his speech will be lost to history.

Lindsey Graham: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

The Romney Campaign is reportedly planning a more aggressive campaign against the President for the fall.

Abortion and “legitimate rape” are not what the Romney campaign should be having to deal with this week.

Maybe the real problem this year isn’t that the campaign is unduly nasty, but that it’s incredibly petty.

Since most pedophiles are men, Virgin airlines naturally treats all men as potential pedophiles.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

Has the Romney campaign foolishly abandoned its best argument against the President?

Romney’s new ad on a ruling issued by HHS on welfare-to-work requirements doesn’t pass the smell test.

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

The people trying to undo the Defense Budget sequestration cuts are making some pretty weak arguments.

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.