Outside the Beltway

Trump betrayed his oath. That should disqualify him from office. That’s the whole point of section 3 of the 14th.

So, what now?

Violence, masculinity, and American politics.

A just verdict—but just a verdict.

President Biden told a little fib.

The most novel argument yet against capital punishment.

Evidence that George Zimmerman acted out of racial bias is completely lacking, which means the Federal Government should stay out of this case entirely.

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

Rush Limbaugh made perhaps one of the dumber comments I’ve seen from the right about the entire Bain Capital story, and managed to display an apparent inability to use Google to look things up.

The first shot in a Constitutional showdown has been fired.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.

Based on the numbers, Barack Obama is an immigration hawk.

Is the NYPD becoming too much like the CIA?

Michele Bachmann’s view of history is based in a world view that would be foreign to most Americans.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

Does the 10th Amendment contain the answer to the same-sex marriage debate? Not really.

Not surprisingly, people still order that big juicy cheeseburger even after being told it contains over 1,000 calories.

While our politics are seldom violent, our violence is often politicized.

The Republicans are increasingly the party of white America. That’s short term good but long term bad for the GOP.

It’s not hypocritical or racist to support an aggressive pursuit of terrorists while getting outraged over abuses of Americans’ liberties.

Rush Limbaugh is apparently not impressed with Barack Obama’s presidency. That doesn’t make him a racist.

The odds that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will be repealed anytime in the near future are fairly close to zero thanks to the results of last Tuesday’s elections.

It’s been a decade since al Qaeda attacked the USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors. The perpetrators are still at large.

Newt Gingrich is drawing fire for his comments about that the President has a “Kenyan world view.” But, will Newt every pay the price for his inflammatory rhetoric ? Don’t count on it.

Did the American media cover up torture by the Bush Administration?