Outside the Beltway

Are civil liberties once again at risk in the wake of the bombing attack in Boston?

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

A federal judge has ruled National Security Letters violate the First Amendment’s free speech guarantees.

Secret surveillance of American citizens has dramatically increased under the Obama Administration.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.

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.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

The GOP Establishment is in crisis, but it has nobody to blame but itself.

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

When the FBI essentially creates a terrorist in order to arrest him, have we really accomplished anything?

Accusing someone of “politicizing” a discussion of 9/11 is like accusing someone of “athleticizing” a discussion of football.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants a full debate on the PATRIOT Act. What’s Congress so afraid of?

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas’ new book, AMERICAN TALIBAN: HOW WAR, SEX, SIN, AND POWER BIND JIHADISTS AND THE RADICAL RIGHT, continues a long tradition in political polemics.

Will a debate over foreign policy tear apart the GOP ? Probably not.