Outside the Beltway

Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?

Killing’s our business and business is good.

On reflection, the nature of Marcus Bachmann’s influence over his wife is indeed a legitimate question in a political campaign.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

What constitutes a true threat?

Thomas Ricks makes the case that JFK was the worst President of his century but his argument misses the mark.

Rush Limbaugh heaps praise on President Obama for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Once again, President Obama has ignored Candidate Obama’s promises to reign in the Presidential powers assumed by George W. Bush.

In just over a decade, America has gone from a bipartisan consensus that torture and brutality are bad to a bipartisan consensus that they’re necessary.

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.

The Beast has released its The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, which I gather is supposed to be amusing rather than taken seriously.

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

Over the past two days, Sarah Palin has become the center of the media firestorm over the tragic shootings in Arizona, she doesn’t belong there.

Thankfully, attacks on members of Congress are a rarity.

Palin’s infamous “target” poster recycles a theme used by both parties over the years.

The shooting of Representative Giffords is tragic and undeniably political. Still, we need to be cautious about accusations and speculation.

Is Obama really the most liberal President ever? Not really.

Theodore Sorensen, a speechwriter and close adviser to President John F. Kennedy, died today at the age of 82

Jonah Goldberg has written a bad column. In this case, an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune headlined “Why is Assange still alive?”

In what is being described as the largest leak of secret documents in U.S. history, Wikileaks has made public more than 400,000 documents related to the seven year long Iraq War.

Who’s to blame for the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, President Obama or those who have actually been encouraging bias against Muslims?

Like Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell is no fan of the press.

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

The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections were marked by another round of allegations of widespread voter fraud, once again bringing to the forefront the question; what exactly are we trying to accomplish in Afghanistan ?

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.

The White House seems to be getting annoyed at the criticism coming it’s way from the left.