Outside the Beltway

Herman Cain’s promise to rely on “experts” should raise eyebrows everywhere.

George Will reminds conservatives to look in the mirror if the prospect of a President Romney dismays them.

President Obama’s surprise announcement Friday that all U.S. forces would leave Iraq in time to be home for the holidays has been roundly condemned. While there are real concerns about what happens next, there was no better alternative.

President Obama is being attacking from the right for following through on a policy decision made by his Republican predecessor.

Does “Occupy Wall Street” really represent the people they claim to be speaking for?

The Tea Party flame was lit by the battle over TARP, but they quickly forgot about those bailouts that supposedly upset them so much.

After a lengthy wait, free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea have been approved by Congress.

Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” has changed the rules of the game, for now.

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

Where should we look to understand the failings of the government?

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney repeated a charge that has become part of the conservative zeitgeist. But is it true?

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

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

As more details roll in on President Obama’s millionaire tax hike, it’s looking like it was drawn up by J. Wellington Wimpy: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

More pay for play at the White House?

Top Democrats are starting to voice public concerns about 2012.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Killing’s our business and business is good.

Why was the ATF allowing thousands of weapons to be smuggled to Mexican drug gangs?

It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people manage to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that their political philosophy has massive support.

Environmentalists are upset by President Obama’s decision to abandon stringent new smog regulations, but he made the right decision.

The failure of a solar energy firm in California is raising questions about a centerpiece of the Administration’s economic policy.

Jon Huntsman is out with a tax and jobs plan that deserves a lot more attention than it’s likely to get.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.

Romney’s VFW speech was filled with tropes and bromides but nothing that should raise eyebrows.

Rick Perry placed his cowboy boots firmly on the third rail of American politics.

Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.

The world is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave the strongest signal ever that there will be some U.S. military presence in Iraq after December 31st.

If we cannot adequately diagnose our problems it will be even harder to fix them.

House Republicans are being criticized for utilizing a tactic they learned from Senate Democrats.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

In the 80’s it was yachts, today it’s private jets. The argument is the same, and it’s still without merit.

On paper, the U.S. lost $1.3 billion on the Chrysler bankruptcy, but the true cost is far higher than that.

How much of an American can you be if you are willing to wreck the economy for political gain.