Outside the Beltway

The Obama administration is refusing to enforce border security, right?

The Obama administration wants the FBI to be able to look at your Internet records without the inconvenience of respecting your 4th Amendment rights.

Will the Wikileaks document dump give even further impetus to the growing sentiment that the United States needs to leave Afghanistan ?

Today’s outrage of the day comes in the form of a new report claiming that the United States supported the release of the only man accused. But the report itself proves that isn’t what happened.

According to Maureen Dowd, Barack Obama’s biggest problem is that there are too many white people in this picture.

Congress and the White House are starting to stake out sides in the upcoming battle over extending the Bush tax cuts.

General Stanley McChrystal retired with full honors while being lauded by the Secretary of Defense.

If Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann gets her way, the 112th Congress will feature a lot of committees “investigating” the Obama Administration.

Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.

Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

Recent debates over the economic and fiscal impact of the Bush tax cuts indicate that Republicans still haven’t learned the lessons of the Bush years.

In Court filings the Obama Administration is arguing that the health insurance mandate is a tax, and if they’re right the legal challenges to ObamaCare are dead.

As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.

American businesses are sitting on a big pile of cash, and giving no indication that they have any intention of spending it any time soon.

You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.

The Obama Administration seems to be saying that “Blame Bush” will be at the core of their re-election strategy. Good idea ? Not really.

The White House is making some very odd political choices in its response to the Arizona immigration law.

Another new poll brings bad news for Democrats and the President.

The legal battle over immigration began today as the Obama Administration filed suit against Arizona over its new immigration law.

So much for the Obama Administration’s “Summer of Recovery.”

The health care reform law faced it’s first legal test in a Courtroom in Virginia yesterday.

President Obama’s powers of persuasion were severely lacking at the G-20 Summit this weekend.

The European drive — led by Germany, naturally — to tighten spending to get their fiscal house in order and the Obama administration’s insistence on Keynesian stimulus will make for tense negotiations at the G20 Summit.

Despite repeated promises to the contrary, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will be remaining open indefinitely.

Stanley McChrystal is being called to face Obama’s national security team this morning. They should take the opportunity to come up with coherent Afghanistan policy.

There’s really only one story in Washington, D.C. today, and Stanley McChrystal is the star player.

A Federal Judge in Louisiana has told the Obama Administration that it can’t ban offshore drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

President Obama is following the example of his predecessors in abusing his power to enact his preferred policies. Has he gone too far?

General Stanley McChrystal is opening his mouth again and, this time, it could cost him his job.

Should Obama waive restrictions on international shipping, as Bush did during Katrina? It’s more complicated than you may think.

Daniel Larison and Reihan Salan have an intelligent discussion on the Internet, managing to persuade each other!

Fatherhood.gov, the website Obama launched to some criticism yesterday, actually has its roots in the Bush Administration and has a predecessor dating to 2000.

In conjunction with Father’s Day, the Obama administration unveiled Fatherhood.gov, a website offering advice to men on raising kids. Why is this a job for the federal government?

The White House and Rahm Emanuel were quick to deny the reports that he has a plan to leave the White House.