Outside the Beltway

The Kentucky Senator and former Vice-President are at the front of a battle that will unfold inside the GOP as we head toward 2016.

Some questions for the Republicans who would be President about the actions of the last Republican President.

Recent events in Iraq have opened up old domestic political arguments in the United States.

Some bad news for the President.

Iraq is falling apart for reasons that have nothing to do with President Obama or his policies.

Good intentions and good results aside, the President’s disrespect for the Rule Of Law should concern everyone.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

Good intentions aren’t an excuse for failure to follow the law.

A victory for Federalism and sanity in the War On Drugs.

Does the office of Vice-President serve any useful purpose anymore?

Eric Shinseki resigned as Secretary of Veterans Affairs this morning, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

The President’s second speech to the Corps of Cadets is a vast improvement over the first.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

The latest chapter in an all too familiar story.

James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

Hubris.

Congressman Walter Jones beat back a primary challenge from a former Bush aide who attacked him over his foreign policy views.

The right decision, or the triumph of mob rule?

A new poll indicates that most Americans don’t want to see the United States intervening overseas.

So, this happened.

It’s a bit too early for Republicans to be celebrating that Senate majority that so many people are predicting.

Top Republican donors are starting to look at the former Governor of Florida as their candidate in 2016.

Calling anyone a front-runner in a race where we’re still two years away from anyone casting votes is silly. Nonetheless, Rand Paul is an interesting guy to watch for those wondering if the GOP has actually changed.

If something is going to be done about an out of control National Security State, it’ll be because the American people demand it.

Most Americans now see America’s decade of war as a failure.

Former SecDef Robert Gates is among those who believes that the Iraq War unduly diverted attention from fighting the War On Terror.

A new book by former SecDef Robert Gates is making political waves in Washington power circles, but will it matter to ordinary Americans?

.Many have tried to justify N.S.A. data mining on the theory that it could have prevented 9/11. Is that true?

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

The trends in President Obama’s approval numbers are not moving in the direction he ought to want them to go.

The faux scandal of today comes to us courtesy of The Daily Caller: “Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website.”

Much like the Tea Party, David Frum wants to make the GOP tent smaller.

Divided government is the worst political system ever, except for all the others.

With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.

:Like his predecessors, President Obama’s speech last night exaggerated the threat that Syria poses in order to sell his plan to American voters.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

Score one for Team Bush?

As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.

A late-night announcement that Gitmo detainees will get hearings raises more questions than it answers.

Once again, the threat of the “nuclear option” appears to have had less megatonnage than some expected and others hoped.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

Frustrations with the mercurial leader of Afghanistan may increase the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A decade ago. a certain New York Times columnist was more right than your humble host.