Outside the Beltway

Our patience with those who repeatedly hijack the discussion thread to detract from the topic at hand has ended, effective immediately.

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

Clearly there’s a large ambiguity in the Constitutional gap between the two separate war-related powers of Congress and the Executive. The WPA can be seen as an attempt to resolve it but can’t if it’s unconstitutional.

Two major American military installations are in serious danger. From rising water, not terrorist attacks.

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

Charging soldiers $200 for an extra bag on their way home for war? Really Delta?

Army Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry will become the ninth Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan–and one of only two who lived to tell the tale.

A passenger started a fight over a reclined airplane seat, causing fighter planes to scramble.

This is a male latrine, there shouldn’t be any drawings of dicks.

Glenn Greenwald asks two questions about the cases of Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic. Helpfully, the second answers the first.

Commander Dave Koss, the head of the Navy’s Blue Angels, has “voluntarily” resigned after repeated unsafe maneuvers.

Allen West says Congressmen who oppose the war in Afghanistan should go over and “get shot at a few times and maybe they’d have a different opinion.”

The House of Representatives has voted 416-5 for a resolution prohibiting President Obama from sending ground troops to Libya

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants a full debate on the PATRIOT Act. What’s Congress so afraid of?

The Navy’s director of warfare integration says China is a “smart and learning enemy.”

Frank R. Lindh, father of Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi (aka Sulayman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, and John Walker Lindh) has an op-ed in the NYT asking “Bin Laden’s Gone. Can My Son Come Home?” The answer is, sure: In another 8 to 11 years.

It has now been 60 days since American involvement in Libya commenced. Congress has failed to act, and that’s their fault.

Once again, Congressional abdication has led to an Executive Branch power grab.

Marc Thiessen claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammad mocked the CIA interrogators who waterboarded him.

President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after Osama bin Laden was killed two weeks ago. They’ve already settled back to where they were

General Donn Starry and the Army of the 1970s.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who will enter the Presidential race tomorrow, says he wouldn’t have tried to have Osama bin Laden killed.

John McCain thoroughly dismantles the argument that Osama bin Laden’s capture vindicates the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

Video of the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden

Is the war in Libya illegal?

Technology has saved the lives of countless American soldiers. But it’s made going to war easier.