Outside the Beltway

Looking at the data? Not very.

The Weekly Standard is proud that Mitt Romney’s intentionally false Jeep ad was technically true.

Fitch is out this morning with a warning on the nation’s credit rating that both Republicans and Democrats need to listen to.

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

The idea of completely pulling out of Afghanistan after 2014 is very compelling.

Stony Brook finance prof Noah Smith writes, “The Single Best Anti-Gun-Death Policy? Ending the Drug War.”

President Obama’s recent statements on the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington are not consistent with his own Administration’s policies.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

Has Petraeus provided the basic explanation for the administration’s immediate responses to Benghazi?

People continue to spread conspiracy theories explaining the “real reason” that David Petraeus’s extra-marital affair became public.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

Once again, Senate Democrats are talking about filibuster reform, but will they actually follow through?

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

If you thought the War On Terror might be over, think again.

President Obama seems to have given away the store when it comes to the defense sequestration cuts.

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

Increasingly, the right of people to speak is being sacrificed in the name of “tolerance” and “security.”

What’s the truth about last night’s debate exchange about Libya?

The President has yet to tell us what he would do with a Second Term.

For all the hype, it’s unlikely that tonight’s debate will have the same impact as the October 3rd Debate.

The worst elements among the Syrian rebels seem to be the ones getting the arms.

A round of finger pointing in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack.

The official narrative on the Benghazi consulate attack has changed again.

Republican problems among Latino voters could have an influence on several close races this year.

Mitt Romney’s speech at VMI today was billed as a major foreign policy address, but it was incredibly light on substance.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

Slowly but surely, we’re giving up on Afghanistan.

The Presidency costs taxpayers a lot of money, but that’s been true for many, many years now.

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.