Outside the Beltway

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

The recent;y concluded party conventions are further evidence that the events have largely outlived their usefulness.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

As Isaac bears down on the Gulf Coast, will the Republican Convention be even further impacted?

The GOP is set to approve rules changes that will impact the 2016 primaries, and beyond. They’re a good start.

The quadrennial political conventions have become, long, boring, tedious, and largely predetermined. It’s time to shake things up by making them a lot shorter.

It would be nice if people who make authoritative decisions had some idea what they are talking about.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

Mitt Romney faces the same resistance to the idea of a Mormon President that his father did when he ran for President four decades ago.

Both candidates are telling the public that they can change the way Washington works. They’re both setting themselves up to be the source of major disappointment.

If not Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, who might the Democrats have to choose from in 2016?

There may be only one solution to saving the Euro.

Americans Elect is dead. This should surprise nobody.

Your tax dollars should not be paying for this.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

If we taught the Federalist Papers more rigorously would that lead to a shared view of the constitution?

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

The old have most of the money and power in our society, a trend that is accelerating.

There will be no more GOP candidate debates. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

The GOP has sold its soul.

2012 may be the last chance for the current Republican Party to win the White House.

The Republican debacle of 1964 offers some lessons for the current cycle.

This is no way to pick a Presidential Nominee.

The popular notion that the United States military is monolithically Republican is mistaken.

If Romney loses in November, it could be the start of a bitter fight insider the Republican Party.

Getting to the heart of last night’s moment of kabuki theater.

Senator Jim DeMint demonstrated clearly today what is wrong with Washington.

Last night was the high point of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for the Presidency.

A record number of Americans don’t consider themselves a member of either party.

Virginia has helped winnow the Republican field. You’re welcome America.

Several candidates did not submit a completed application on time to qualify for Virginia’s Republican primary ballot.

Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Italy’s new government is comprised exclusively of un-elected experts.

Gary Johnson is right to be upset that he’s been excluded from debates, but he shouldn’t get the government involved.

Are America’s political parties become irrelevant?

Well, maybe not so brief…

Neither political party is resonating with the public right now, and neither is acting in the manner the public would like.

Like clockwork, the arguments for creation of a third party are popping up again.