Outside the Beltway

That word may not mean what you think it means.

The Luke, I Am Your Voter Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

Facing a tough re-election battle, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is engaging in abject fearrmongering.

It’s way too early, folks.

Sometimes, being evasive in answering a question just makes a politician look silly. This is one of those times.

Will the President back track on his promise of further action on immigration if the GOP wins the Senate?

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

The former Virginia Senator is talking about running for President.

Self-described socialist Bernie Sanders is contemplating an independent run for the presidency.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

Two prominent Republican groups point out the blindingly obvious.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

Some on the left are saying that Hillary Clinton isn’t doing enough to help Democrats in 2014.

Dispelling a rising myth,

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

Some words from the past, apparently uttered mere hours before the world changed forever.

Notwithstanding the hype, there’s one very big reason why the idea of Elizabeth Warren as a viable candidate for President doesn’t make much sense.

A new poll suggests that Hillary Clinton’s record as Secretary of State doesn’t impress voters as much as she might hope.

The Hard Choices Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

Todd Akin continues to give Republicans headaches.

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

Public faith in government institutions is at all all time low.

One of the most repeated comments about the 2016 race is based on something that just isn’t true.

For some reason, President Obama wants to arm so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

Hillary Clinton does not come across well when she tries to play the empathy card.

Once again, Republicans are attacking someone for doing a job the Bill of Rights itself makes necessary and important.

New Hampshire Republicans still like Mitt Romney.

Brian Schweitzer has a reputation for saying things that most politicians wouldn’t, but that may be just what he needs to get attention if he runs in 2016.

Recent events in Iraq have opened up old domestic political arguments in the United States.

Ahmed Abu Kattalah, the alleged ringleader of the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, has been arrested.

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

She won’t admit it publicly, but Hillary Clinton didn’t really write her new book.

Apparently, things were tougher in Chappaqua, New York and on D.C.’s Embassy Row than we ever imagined.

Hillary Clinton remains at the top of the polls, but she’s got at least one big vulnerability.

A Reuters political blogger has set tongues wagging about the possibility another First Lady might run for the U.S. Senate.