Outside the Beltway

A new ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals raises a host of questions.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

Now that he’s a top tier candidate, it’s hard to see how Herman Cain’s tax plan can withstand serious scrutiny.

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

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

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

Under new policies, deportation efforts will be concentrated on people who pose a threat to society. It’s a sensible policy, so of course it’s being denounced.

Although he didn’t get the words quite right yesterday, Mitt Romney was exactly right about corporations.

Another major campaign finance case from the Supreme Court.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

David Rittgers, a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute who served three tours in Afghanistan as a special forces officer, laments the militarization of police in America.

It was a good day in Court for opponents of the Affordable Care Act.

How insurance makes health care more expensive

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

The bottom line is that the problem with the Ryan Plan is the Ryan Plan.

The antiwar movement has been strangely silent despite the fact that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t really changed that much since Barack Obama became President.

Critics of the GOP’s efforts to restrict Federal funding of abortion and related services confuse the concept of the right to have an abortion with the idea that someone has a claim on taxpayer dollars.

New York Times writer Adam Liptak discovers that a Supreme Court decision protecting “corporate speech” might not be a bad thing considering that he works for a corporation.

Bipartisan seating at the State Of The Union is a pointless act of political theater. Then again, so is the State Of The Union Address itself.

A woman in California has filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s because she is apparently unable to resist her child’s incessant demands for a Happy Meal.

Further thoughts on a rather radical proposed Amendment to the Constitution, prompted by a link from Instapundit.

Will the incoming “Tea Party” caucus in the House and Senate force the GOP to reconsider its views on foreign policy? Don’t count on it.

If the Obama Administration gets it’s way, your secure Internet communications won’t really be all that secure.

The average federal government employee earns twice as much as the average private sector worker. An outrage? Not so much.

Did LeBron James pick Miami because of income taxes ? Probably not.

The Chairman of the RNC is expressing doubts about America’s war effort in Afghanistan.

Once again, the Supreme Court affirmed today that there is no Constitutional right to receive public funds.

Is it time to elect a President that doesn’t have that “lean and hungry look” ?

Ron Paul’s newsletters are proof either that he’s a racist or a fraud.