Outside the Beltway

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

It looks like we’ll have Newt Gingrich to kick around for awhile.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of religion in public life are built on lies about American history.

A Selection Of Speaker Gingrich’s Thoughts Over The Years

Last night was the high point of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for the Presidency.

Many people seem to have a rather inappropriate view of their relationship to the President of the United States.

Mitt Romney said the other day that the 2012 Election is about “the soul of the country.” This is most assuredly not true.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

Newt Gingrich gets his Civil War history very wrong.

Newt Gingirch ups the ante in his rhetorical assault on judicial independence.

Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the role of the judiciary are very dangerous.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. believes the Congress is “in rebellion” and therefore President Obama should exercise extraordinary constititutional means” to implement a massive jobs plan.

“Straight talkers” like Chris Christie make for lousy leaders.

Mitt Romney is still being dogged by charges of changed positions. Now, he’s trying to spin that as a good thing.

Are we placing far too much importance on how someone does in a two hour so-called “debate”?

Where do we stand after 224 years?

Rick Perry will need to get past Michele Bachmann before he takes on Mitt Romney. But, really, how hard could it be?

Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal sent a warning to his fellow Republicans. Too bad they probably won’t listen.

Former Serbian commander Ratko Mladic has been arrested for alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

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

A day after apologizing for an odd comment about the President’s upbringing, Mike Huckabee now feeds into the conservative myth that Barack Obama isn’t a real American.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

In a new Gallup poll, Americans rank Ronald Reagan as America’s Greatest President.

Thomas Lowry fraudulently altered the date of an 1864 pardon from Abraham Lincoln to make it look like it was written on the date of his 1864 assassination.

Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech was, like a political stump speech, crafted and polished over months and years of delivery.

150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.

Christopher Hitchens explains how to make tea.

The Presidency has lost the aura of mystique that used to surround it, and that’s a good thing.

150 years ago today a group of men gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and made one of the gravest mistakes in American history. They should not be honored for it.

President Obama is already taking heat from the left for his compromise on tax cut extensions, but will it actually hurt him in the end?

The white, Southern Democrat is a dying breed.

George W. Bush’s new memoir reveals that he briefly considered replaced Dick Cheney as Vice-President before the 2004 elections. His decision not to do so reveals much about the relationship between Presidents and Vice-Presidents in modern American politics.

The British press takes a look at America’s Midterm Elections.

Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts President Obama’s re-election. Historically, that’s the safe bet.

In his farewell speech on Friday, Rahm Emanuel said that the Obama Administration had faced tougher times than any previous President. That is a fundamentally absurd idea.

The competition for 25 Greatest Americans was steep. Only 3/4 of Mount Rushmore made the cut.

A survey of historians ranks Obama as the 15th best president ever, ahead of Ronald Reagan and behind Bill Clinton.