Outside the Beltway

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

The vetting process for a Vice-Presidential running mate will likely be very different with memories of the Sarah Palin debacle fresh in everyone’s mind.

Is the United States a serious country? Should we be?

Michael Hastings has yet another credulous story attempting to smear the United States military.

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.

Now that America’s political leadership have probably averted a self-inflicted global economic calamity, it’s time to assess the winners and losers.

President Obama is polling at 46.8 percent, below the level needed to win re-election.

The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.

Donald Trump figures that, because he’s rich, he’s qualified to be president.

Can a candidate appealing enough to the base to win the Republican nomination beat Obama?

With just over a week to go before the 112th Congress convenes, battle lines are already being drawn in battle over the defense budget.

After 1 1/2 years in office, President Obama has yet to grant a single request for a pardon or clemency, continuing a thirty year trend in which the Presidential pardon power has nearly fallen in to disuse.

While health experts warn Americans to cut the amount of fat in their diet, the Federal Government helps businesses like Domino’s and Taco Bell promote high-fat products to the public.

Republicans are promising two years of gridlock and obstructionism if they take control of Congress, but is that really what the people who are likely to vote for them next week really want?

Robert Gates has been a reluctant Secretary of Defense but his impact at the Pentagon has been tremendous.