Outside the Beltway

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

The Obama Administration is offering an odd explanation for why it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

Once again, an American President thinks he can bring peace to the Middle East.

Senate fails to revoke tax cuts for big oil.

Ohio State researchers: ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs.

As of today, the United States is legally barred from borrowing money to finance its operations. Thanks for nothing, Congress.

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

The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.

The first round of appellate arguments over the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act took place today in Richmond, Virginia.

Boehner wants some pretty big cuts in exchange for a vote on raising the debt ceiling.

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

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

President Obama chided the media for paying too much attention to the birther issue, but his criticism was unwarranted.

A major law firm has withdrawn from defending DOMA in Court, and a public controversy has erupted.

The The Clash Of The Tight-uns Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

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

The Pentagon is frustrated that the Obama administration doesn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do.”

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.

Standard & Poor’s didn’t believe the Obama Administration’s argument that Washington would be able to fix the deficit. There’s no reason they should have.

President Obama’s signing statement on the allocation of funds to Presidential “czars” sets a potentially dangerous Constitutional precedent.

We’re approaching the point where those job approval numbers start to matter, and President Obama’s are heading down again.

Stephen Walt doesn’t expect Obama’s foreign policy to change along with the names on the org chart.

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

Paul Krugman is disappointed with the President, but it’s really his own fault for being so naive.

The Obama Administration is resisting efforts to expand Fourth Amendment protections to services like Gmail. That’s unfortunate.

There are still three days left, but it’s looking less and less likely that a budget deal will be reached in time to avoid a government shutdown.

The Obama Administration has given up on the idea of trying the September 11th suspects in a civilian court. Considering how much that trial would have perverted the justice system, that’s a good thing.

Since November, the Unemployment Rate has fallen a full percentage point, a sign that this is more than just a minor recovery.

Like all Presidents before him, Barack Obama is asserting the right to virtually unfettered discretion when it comes to military matters.