Outside the Beltway

The Have A Blast Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Bombing Country B to “send a message” to Country A is not a valid argument for bombing Country B.

Score one for Team Bush?

Some questions that the Administration needs to answer before attacking Syria.

Secretary of State Kerry becomes the latest American official to wade into the Middle East’s longest lasting quagmire.

The Illudium pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

John Cornyn tells Jennifer Rubin that he’ll oppose the confirmation of his former colleague, Chuck Hagel, for Secretary of Defense.

They are playing the game without rules in Egypt.

The son of a former Israeli Prime Minister proposes an utterly insane idea.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be heading in one unfortunate direction.

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a message to Israel last week.

A new IAEA report may make an Israeli strike on Iran in the near future more likely than it has ever been.

Once again, Chris Christie makes one wish there were more Republicans like him.

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

Mitt Romney’s view of the ideal relationship between the United States and Israel is, at the very least. quite odd, and, potentially, dangerous.

We, as a country, need to remember that do not hold levers that allow us to move events this way or that

Newt Gingrich’s comments about Palestinian nationhood came up during last night’s debate.

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) took to the floor yesterday to lambaste Grover Norquist and his influence over the GOP.

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

Foolishly, the Palestinians are going forward with their effort to get Palestinian statehood recognized by the United Nations.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

Glenn Beck seems to have more in common with End Time preachers than he does with a serious political analyst.

Israelis and Palestinians don’t agree on much these days, but they do agree that Barack Obama hasn’t helped the peace process at all since coming to office.

If everything you know about Islam comes from Pam Geller and Christianity from Christopher Hitchens, you’re doing yourself a grave disservice.

Will Israel attack Iran ? You’d better hope not.

Once again, an American President is stepping into the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and, once again, he has no idea how to accomplish the goals he’s established.

Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.