Outside the Beltway

Monday’s debate in Tampa was a far more subdued affair than what we saw last week.

Newt Gingirch ups the ante in his rhetorical assault on judicial independence.

A stark account of how American journalism has changed over the last half century.

Should it matter if a teacher has an accent?

The normally loquacious Chávez has been almost silent since emergency surgery in Cuba on June 10th.

Herman Cain is getting a lot of attention lately, but will he amount to anything?

Marc Thiessen claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammad mocked the CIA interrogators who waterboarded him.

Breathless hysteria over the trend toward a less white America misses an important fact: most Hispanics are white.

The Obama Administration has given up on the idea of trying the September 11th suspects in a civilian court. Considering how much that trial would have perverted the justice system, that’s a good thing.

Humorous take on America’s wars.

The last thing that Haiti needed was for a former dictator to return, but that’s exactly what has happened.

President Obama is likely to issue a signing statement in order to keep his Gitmo options open.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

Castro banned “Sicko” for fear that ordinary Cubans would be up in arms seeing facilities that are not available to the vast majority of them.

The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?

The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee ends with the Defendant being acquitted on all but one charge, and shows us why the entire process is little more than a show trial.

Thanks to a combination of good intelligence and fast action, it looks like the U.S. and UK avoided a serious attack on airliners last week.

Theodore Sorensen, a speechwriter and close adviser to President John F. Kennedy, died today at the age of 82

The story about the private security guards who “arrested” a journalist at a Joe Miller campaign event just keeps getting stranger by the day.

Mary Anastasia O’Grady takes Jeffery Golodberg to task over his interview with Fidel Castro. Much hilarity (or, at least, poor analysis) ensues.

Fidel Castro is back in the public eye, but he’s singing a slightly different tune now.

How does the Electoral College influence policy and campaigning?