Outside the Beltway

The final release of President Lyndon Johnson’s tape recordings reveals a bizarre plot.

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

Mr. Paul Goes To Washington.

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball isn’t being hypocritical in trusting Obama to decide which Americans to kill even though she wouldn’t have trusted Bush. But she’s being short-sighted.

The NRA is calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing armed guards in schools while sending his own girls to school with armed guards.

It turns out, the NRA behind the game is not the National Rifle Association.

President Obama is taking some heat over the fact that his Second Term cabinet selections have been very white and very male.

Vilifying Thomas Jefferson is as much as mistake as placing him on a pedestal.

The GOP claims to be a party that favors limited government, but its foreign policy positions reveal this to be little more than a lie.

In calling for the sequestration cuts to be delayed, Republicans are demonstrating their lack of seriousness on the issue of fiscal responsibility.

The GOP’s arguments about the impact of ObamaCare on Medicare are dishonest and hypocritical.

It’s a wonder the Constitution gets followed at all.

As of today, there are 75 vacant Federal Judgeships, including one that has been open for seven years.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

A bill likely to become law in Virginia will require all women seeking abortions to undergo an invasive ultrasound examination.

Rick Santorum is Michele Bachmann level crazy. Yet he’s arguably the Republican frontrunner right now.

The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.

Sarah Palin isn’t running for President, and she hasn’t officially endorsed anyone, but that hasn’t stopped her from putting her thumb on the scale.

Last night, Ron Paul decided it was a good idea to bring back the ghosts of the Vietnam War era.

Vehement disagreement with the policy views of a country and prejudice based on immutable traits are not the same.

Rick Perry is seeking Court intervention to get on the Virginia ballot. He isn’t likely to get very far.

Like many Republicans before him, Newt Gingrich is trying to claim the mantle of Reagan. He is the one least entitled to it.

Usually if a quote is too good to be true, it is.

The Establishment opposition to the current frontrunner has little to do with his policy ideas.

The much celebrated ban on earmarks isn’t stopping Congressmen from trying to earmark.

With the Super Committee dead, 2012 is likely to see a fight over the defense cuts set to take place starting in 2013.

A Federal Judge has blocked a new FDA rule that would have placed these labels on cigarette packaging.

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.

Is there another explanation for Michele Bachmann’s decision to keep bringing Rick Perry’s HPV vaccine order up?

Florida’s new law requiring welfare recipients to pass drug tests seems to clearly violate the Fourth Amendment.

Has a precedent been set for future requests by the President to increase the debt ceiling?

The First Lady is coming under fire for hypocrisy in her meal choices.

The Obama Justice Department is siding against historians trying to protect the confidentiality of their sources.

Is it appropriate for news organizations to decide that the people don’t need to hear from certain political candidates?

Newt Gingrich and his wife had a quarter million dollar line of credit at Tiffany’s. A story, a scandal, or much ado about nothing? I’ll take Door Number Three.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

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

A Huffington Post contributor who had no expectation of being paid for his contributions is suing HuffPo for $105 million.

Games legislators play…

The “Obama Doctrine,” such as it is, seems to boil down to moral self-certainty combined with a glaring ignorance of reality. That’s a dangerous combination.

Actor Alec Baldwin is among hundreds being targeted by New York City for tax evasion. Is it reasonable to have to prove where you live?