Outside the Beltway

The reaction to President Obama’s recent recess appointments provide us with yet another example of bipartisan hypocrisy.

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.

The Washington Independent goes dark in December, failing to find profitability in three years.

Virginia Senator Jim Webb is the last of a dying breed of Democrats, but his party may need him if it wants to remain competitive anywhere outside of a Blue State.

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.

Who’s to blame for the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, President Obama or those who have actually been encouraging bias against Muslims?

Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the iconic HOPE poster, is disappointed with President Obama.

Glenn Greenwald argues that the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate is about more than just a “mosque” near Ground Zero. He’s right, but that also means the debate is likely to get uglier.

The webmaster of a local Republican chapter linked a YouTube video that implies Democratic women are ugly.

Barack Obama was a big hit on college campuses in 2008. Two years later, those same young voters seem to be having second thoughts.

Reports of Barack Obama’s political death are greatly exaggerated and wildly premature.

Much like his pledge to close Guantanamo within a year, President Obama’s promised deadline to implement a “scientific integrity” program has come and gone.

Despite repeated promises to the contrary, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will be remaining open indefinitely.