Outside the Beltway

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

Because of a culture where being first is more important than being right, ABC News made a few mistakes in its Friday morning coverage of the Colorado shootings.

Once again, the usual suspects are exploiting tragedy for political purposes.

Terror erupted in a Colorado movie theater early this morning.

The Romney campaign is trying to shift the narrative.

After a decade of war, suicides are surging among American troops.

Because, of course, the ends justify the means.

The margin between Barack Obama and Mitt Romeny is razor-thin, and it’s likely to stay that way for quite some time.

Alan Dershowitz thinls the charges against George Zimmerman should be dropped. With due apologies to the good Professor, he’s wrong.

There may be reason to doubt reports alleging that Mitt Romney engaged in vicious bullying of a gay classmate as an 18-year-old prepster.

How the Vice-President’s comment’s on Meet The Press led to an historic Presidential announcement.

The same-sex marriage pivot that everyone was expecting has come.

The White House is playing a game that few people are buying.

Ruthlessly avoiding fights that aren’t worth the risk is shrewd leadership. But Romney still needs to show he can fight and win.

Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.

An unusual proceeding, but an unsurprising result.

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, what happens to his delegates?

The GOP seems to be backing away from a position on same-sex marriage that was a prominent part of its message only a short time ago.

A news report today provides an excellent lesson in why all the rushing to judgment in the Martin/Zimmerman case is a mistake.

For a change, President Obama and not one the Republican contenders to replace him has gotten into trouble for accidentally speaking the truth.

When I saw the YahooNews headline “Law firm fires 14 employees for wearing orange shirts,” I naturally presumed it had something to do with St. Patrick’s Day. As it turns out, it’s even dumber than that.

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin met on the night of February 27th. Martin died, and a firestorm has erupted.

Russia may be getting more involved in the Syrian conflict.

Rising fuel prices are starting to hurt the President in the polls, but it’s unclear what that means for November.