Outside the Beltway

There’s more to life than politics. Unfortunately, there are many Americans who don’t seem to recognize that fact.

The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.

The Supreme Court will decide if Congress can override American foreign policy when it comes to declaring who has dominion over Jerusalem.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

Yesterday’s apparent terrorist shooting in Ottawa reveals again a phenomenon that seems difficult if not impossible to stop in advance.

Who should own antiquity?

The Turks have entered the conflict in Syria. Unfortunately for the United States, it’s not on the side we would prefer.

The U.S. Air Campaign Against ISIS Is Much Bigger Than You Think

So far at least, the air strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria do not seem to be having much of an impact.

Remember the border crisis? Yea, it’s not much of a crisis these days.

ISIS at the Gates Edition.

A massacre is about to unfold “a stone’s throw” from Turkey’s border.

Corporal Jordan Spears died in a V-22 accident in operations against the Islamic State.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

Speaker Boehner wants to delay a vote on the ISIS war until January, but any such debate will be meaningless because Congress has already abdicated responsibility.

Apparently, the buck doesn’t stop in the Oval Office these days.

The American public’s support for the President’s war against ISIS has its limits.

The Khorasan Group is, functionally, al Qaeda. Or is it?

The TSA is up to its usual shenanigans.

The Administration’s policy in the President’s war against ISIS has no coherent plan, and that virtually guarantees escalation.

The former Virginia Senator is talking about running for President.

The war against ISIS continues to silently escalate, with little input from the people’s representatives in Congress.

As we head into a new conflict, perhaps we ought to give more thought to fiscal issues than the President is to overall strategy.

The sixth year of a presidency leads to some predictable commentary (and some comparative notes).

While the world pays attention to Syria and Iraq, Yemen is once against lurching into chaos.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

President Obama is still insisting that his war against ISIS will not require American ground troops. He’s not being honest with the American people.

Everyone knows that Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades. Don’t tell anyone—it’s a secret.

Iran and the United States are on the same side in the fight against ISIS, whether they like it or not.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

Despite the President’s assurances of an international coalition, the rest of the world doesn’t seem all that interested in joining the fight.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

The Global War on Terror isn’t over after all.

If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.

Congress seems ready to avoid having to vote on expanded attacks against the Islamic State

Is the West next in ISIS’s crosshairs?

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

Dispelling a rising myth,

The United States is, in fact, doing the exact opposite.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

Iraq’s problems cannot be fixed by the United States.

President Obama doesn’t seem to have any idea what he wants to do in Iraq.

For the second time in just over ten years, the United States is involved in military action in Iraq.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.