Outside the Beltway

A take on the conflict that’s probably different from the one you’ve been reading.

Once again, the debt ceiling deal is raising questions about the President’s leadership.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

Freshman GOP Representative Allen West is a loose cannon and unfit for office.

Is NATO prepared for what happens when they win?

Move eases way to providing funding to the rebels.

The White House has apparently rejected using a tortured interpretation of the 14th Amendment to deal with the debt ceiling debate.

Whatever happened to the GOP’s promise to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act?

The US handing Libya over to NATO is “like Beyonce saying she’s ceding control to Sasha Fierce!” – Jon Stewart

Not exactly an example of moral leadership.

Barack Obama’s leadership style may be his undoing.

Does a little known provision in the 14th Amendment make the entire debt ceiling debate irrelevant?

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

The selective application of international law is here to stay.

A Tea Party favorite gets asked a tough question,and a Fox News host finds himself forced to apologize.

Is Gaddafi offering a way out?

Yes, you read that correctly.

Congress had a chance to send a strong message to the Executive Branch today. They failed.

Ppartisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge. This is a bad sign for the Republic.

A few Republicans have picked up on John McCain’s criticism of critics of the Libya mission as being “isolationist.”

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

Is Congress set to vote to authorize military action in Libya?

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

Contrary to what Senator McCain, seeking realism in military policy does not make one an isolationist.

President Obama overruled his top legal advisors in deciding that the Libya operation does not amount to “hostilities” under the War Powers Act.

The White House’s assertion that Libya isn’t covered by the War Powers Act isn’t being accepted on Capitol Hill.

Michele Bachmann is not Sarah Palin.

The Obama Administration tells Congress that it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act because the Act does not apply to the mission in Libya.