Outside the Beltway

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

Despite all the negatives going against him, Mitt Romney may yet be the inevitable Republican nominee.

Details of the President’s jobs plan are starting to leak out, and they’re not looking impressive.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

You thought you’d seen the worst of Congress in July? Oh, you silly American you.

Charles Krauthammer claims we are in the midst of a great debate. I am not so sure.

It is always useful to go inside the numbers.

Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?

Obama’s main politics are hardly as leftist as many make them out to be. Indeed, much of them could have fit well in the the GOP of 1990s and early 2000s.

Ten days after sending American forces into kinetic military action in Libya, President Obama addressed the nation to explain “what we’ve done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us.”

The new Chairman of the American Conservative Union seems to want to mend fences with social conservatives, even if that means throwing new friends under the bus.

House Democrats are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any litigation regarding the Affordable Care Act. It’s a phony argument, but that’s because it has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with legal ethics.

Was the 2011 SOTU a blatant rip-off of past speeches? Or simply banal?

Clarence Thomas has amended 13 years’ worth of disclosure reports.

More tortured logic on the issue of the filibuster.

The American military personnel system works against keeping the best and brightest officers in the service.

Conservative Republicans who are typically deferential to the military are ignoring the advice of the military leadership on the new START Treaty.

Mitch McConnell made clear today that he’s targeting Barack Obama for defeat in two years.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels appears to be quietly putting together the beginnings of a campaign for President of the United States. Don’t count him out by any means.

Recent debates over the economic and fiscal impact of the Bush tax cuts indicate that Republicans still haven’t learned the lessons of the Bush years.

Should Obama waive restrictions on international shipping, as Bush did during Katrina? It’s more complicated than you may think.

Is it “impossible for men to live without breaking laws”?