Outside the Beltway

Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

With Mitt Romney and Barack Obama basically saying the same things about foreign policy, it’s time to take a look at an alternative.

Several recent polls suggest that Mitt Romney is losing the advantage he had over the President on economic issues.

The GOP still hasn’t dealt with the legacy of George W. Bush.

Not surprisingly, a new study finds that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has not caused any harm to the military.

If the first round of post-convention polling is correct, President Obama may be pulling away from Mitt Romney.

Shepard Fairey, the artist who turned a generic AP photo of Barack Obama into an iconic painting, got a hefty punishment for lying to government investigators.

When it comes to issues like medical marijuana, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are reading from the same playbook.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

The President Obama lost his cool with Speaker Boehner on debt negotiations is not nearly as important as the underlying reason a deal couldn’t be reached.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

It’s Obama’s race to lose, not a coin toss.

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

The front page of Sunday’s NYT profiled Valerie Jarrett, the power behind the throne at the Obama White House.

So far, there’s very little movement in the polls for Governor Romney.

A clear victory for the Obama campaign in an Ohio Court, but will it stand on appeal?

A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.

Tonight’s convention speech is the most important speech Mitt Romney has ever given.

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

One of these men is going to his party’s convention, the other is not. The reason why is rather obvious.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

For the first time in 80 years, there are no veterans on the major party Presidential tickets.

Romney’s new ad on a ruling issued by HHS on welfare-to-work requirements doesn’t pass the smell test.

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.

Carbon emissions in the U.S. have declined just as use of natural gas in electricity production has increased. That’s no coincidence.

Alex Pareene’s quip that “Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals” has gone viral.

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.

David Brooks is wistful for the noblesse oblige of the elites of yore.

Lies and misrepresentations in politics seem to be something the American people have come to, if not accept, at least expect.

London’s iconic clock tower, known affectionately as “Big Ben” for some 150 years, has been renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in honor of QE2’s 60 years as royal figurehead.

With the Supreme Court’s decision imminent, many supporters of the PPACA are starting to second guess the Obama Administration’s legal strategy.

The 1976 Pulitizer prize winner is phoning it in.