Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney is once again making completely false claims about the status of the United States Navy.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

The Obama campaign clearly does not want Americans to consider whether they are better off now than they were four years ago.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

For the first time in 80 years, there are no veterans on the major party Presidential tickets.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

The new Red Dawn promises to be even sillier than the first.

Michael Phelps today won his 18th and 19th Olympic medal, breaking the old record held by gymnast Larysa Latynina. Does this make him the greatest ever?

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

How would modern Republicans treat Ronald Reagan and his Vice-President?

Romney comes down firmly on the guns side of guns and butter.

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

Mitt Romney called Russia our “number one geopolitical foe.” Is he right?

China’s government may be more “efficient,” but it’s hardly a model for the rest of the world.

He may be praising Ronald Reagan now, but Newt Gingrich was singing a different tune in the 1980s.

Mitt Romney is making claims about Naval readiness that are, at best, misleading.

The truth about a Second Obama Term is that it likely wouldn’t be all that remarkable.

The former Utah governor will almost certainly never be the GOP nominee. But someone like him will be soon.

The problem with Europe may not be the Euro, but the fact that there really aren’t any Europeans.

Not surprisingly, the last man to lead the Soviet Union believes we’d be better off if it still existed.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

Big news from North Korea.

Newt Gingrich’s comments about Palestinian nationhood came up during last night’s debate.

While unfortunate, the loss of an RQ-170 drone over Iran may not be the intelligence disaster some make it out to be.

This time, it was Newt Gingrich who walked away unscathed from a Republican Presidential debate.

A stark account of how American journalism has changed over the last half century.

Andy Rooney, best known to recent generations as the cranky old man at the end of “60 Minutes,” has died at 92.

Is it time to just admit that the good old days are over?

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

The execution of Troy Davis brings back to the forefront the reasons why the death penalty is inherently flawed.

Not every 10th anniversary of a horrible surprise attack has been treated the same.

Does Bachmann think the USSR is on the rise? I expect not, but her defense and fiscal policy skills still need some work.