Outside the Beltway

Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.

Some Presidents knew how to respond to racism and hatred. The current President doesn’t.

A critic of the imperial presidency becomes an imperial president.

A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

David Brooks thinks that the problem with American Government is that the Presidency isn’t strong enough.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

There’s no doubt about it, our political culture is pretty horrible.

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

Many people seem to have a rather inappropriate view of their relationship to the President of the United States.

Is America’s political system to blame for our current problems?

Cory Maye has spent ten years on death row after a trial tainted by racism and corruption. In a few days, he will be free.

Like all Presidents before him, Barack Obama is asserting the right to virtually unfettered discretion when it comes to military matters.

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.

The Presidency has lost the aura of mystique that used to surround it, and that’s a good thing.

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