Outside the Beltway

If the Department of Justice does not fully comply with Congressional subpoenas, then there seems to be no alternative other than holding the Attorney General in contempt.

As of today, there are 75 vacant Federal Judgeships, including one that has been open for seven years.

The President’s Cabinet is less a Team Of Rivals and more a Team Of Managers.

The United States may have slowed down Iran’s nuclear program without firing a shot–not counting the one at our own foot.

The first shots have been fired in cyberspace. How will it end?

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

The Republican National Committee throws the Fifth Amendment under the bus.

The Romney campaign is pushing back on the “Republican War on Women” meme with this infographic on “Women & The Obama Economy.”

The debt has increased at a faster rate in the past three years than in the previous eight, but assigning blame isn’t what matters.

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

Romney eked out a win in the Michigan primary. He’s going to have a harder time there in November.

The GOP Establishment is in crisis, but it has nobody to blame but itself.

While I’ve expressed my dissatisfaction with the degree that CPAC has embraced the worst elements of the conservative movement in recent years, it does appear that there is a line.

David Frum begins a withering review for The Daily Beast, “Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 is an important book that will have large influence. It is unfortunately not a good book.”

Mitt Romney’s statements about the planned early draw down in Afghanistan make no sense whatsoever.

Mitt Romney’s view of the ideal relationship between the United States and Israel is, at the very least. quite odd, and, potentially, dangerous.

The first shot in a Constitutional showdown has been fired.

Conservatives are rejecting Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek essay out of hand, but they ought to pay attention to what he’s saying.

Is George Bush to blame for a weak Republican field almost four years after he left office? Not entirely.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of government are somewhat disturbing.

While the President’s recess appointments are bound to set off a political dispute with the Republicans, there does not appear to be a Constitution ban against them.

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

The Republican candidates for President have apparently forgotten that this guy was their party’s nominee twice.

Congress eliminates a bad subsidy, but it’s only because there’s a worse one on the books.

Mitt Romney said the other day that the 2012 Election is about “the soul of the country.” This is most assuredly not true.

Let’s ban robocalls.

Understanding the state of the GOP field requires recognizing that President Obama is actually pretty moderate.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the role of the judiciary are very dangerous.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

Don’t believe the fear mongering about the coming decreases in the growth of defense spending.

Could Newt Gingrich really become the Republican nominee? Stranger things have happened.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.

Guess who got advance warning of government actions on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis?

Doug Feith’s replacement is prettier and softer spoken.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

Last night, Herman Cain established that he simply isn’t prepared to be Commander in Chief.

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.