Outside the Beltway

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

Will Joe Biden be on the podium with Barack Obama at the 2012 Democratic convention, or will there be a new running mate?

The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.

Elias Isquith proclaims my Atlantic essay “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” to be “a total disaster.”

Michael Medved wishes that conservatives would stop implying that the President of the United States wants to destroy the United States.

Taking a dive into Mark Levin’s view of Federalism.

Examining Levin’s examination of the Constitution, jurisprudence, and property rights.

Part two of the ongoing series blogging Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

I’m blogging Mark Levin’s Conservative Manifesto. Here’s part one…

The battle over the individual mandate is really just nothing more than the latest round in a batter that has been ongoing for 221 years.

Reason’s Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie have a pretty amusing rejoinder to the Obama administration’s attempts to smear the anonymous funding of television ads opposed to their agenda in a video titled “Who is Publius? or, Who’s Afraid of Anonymous Political Speech?”

Both the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, impressive as they are, must be understood in terms of not just applied political philosophy, but practical politics as well.

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

In the first entry in this series we looked at a basic question of democratic theory. In this one, we look at whether the EC ever worked as the Framers intended.

Bill Kristol’s hero of the Revolutionary Era is Alexander Hamilton. Who is yours?