Outside the Beltway

Is our current economic situation the result of massive government intervention? The Randians certainly think so.

President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.

A Huffington Post contributor who had no expectation of being paid for his contributions is suing HuffPo for $105 million.

The GOP seems to be telling President Obama that revenue increases are off the table. That’s a huge mistake.

Two new polls show that the public supports the budget deal, but has no idea what to do to solve our long term problems.

Mitt Romney forcefully said Tuesday night that he believes President Barack Obama was born in America and that “the citizenship test has been passed.”

Stephen Walt doesn’t expect Obama’s foreign policy to change along with the names on the org chart.

It took Andrew Sullivan 18 years to get his request for Permanent Resident status approved. That’s just absurd.

Donald Trump has been surging in polls of Republican voters recently, but that doesn’t mean much of anything.

Andrew Bacevich refers to Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power as “the Three Harpies.”

Ann Coulter says its time for Birthers to shut up.

A 15-month-old was accidentally served a mixed drink instead of apple juice.

Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.

The Japan nuclear meltdown has now topped the scale used to measure such things, reaching the same level as the Chernobyl disaster. It’s a stupid scale.

David Petraeus’ 1987 PhD dissertation:After all, if a country with relatively few public opinion concerns or moral compunctions about its tactics cannot beat a bunch of ill-equipped Afghan tribesmen, what does that say about the ability of the United States — with its domestic constraints, statutory limitations, moral inhibition, and zealous investigative reporters — to carry out a successful action against a guerrilla force?

The Glowing In The Rain Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

My first piece for The American Conservative, which they’ve titled “War Isn’t for Everyone–The military needs civilian control, not citizen soldiers,” is in the May issue.

Should kids be required to buy their lunch at school rather than bring whatever their parents might pack for them to eat?

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

Paul Krugman is disappointed with the President, but it’s really his own fault for being so naive.

President Obama sees the golf course as the only place to escape the pressures of the job.