Outside the Beltway

Some thoughts on a column by Roger Noriega on the Obama administration and Latin America,

Hillary Clinton’s use of email while Secretary of State pretty much violated every Federal law and regulation on the issue.

The Office of Legal Counsel told the president Wednesday he couldn’t do what he did on Thursday.

Because no one, ever, has ever questioned the intelligence of American voters in extemporaneous discussions of politics.

Obama proposes four ‘net neutrality’ rules.

An inevitable outcome for the head of a once proud agency.

The current Congress is on course to be the least productive in decades.

Judging by the early results, the so-called “Right To Be Forgotten” recently created by Europe’s highest court is creating more problems than it will solve.

Yet more adventures in bad records retention policy at the IRS.

All of a sudden, the IRS announced it doesn’t have communications records it once claimed it did have.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

Does the Attorney General really think advocacy is a crime?

Jofi Joseph was unmasked as the obnoxious @NatSecWonk and fired by the White House.

So much for the most transparent Administration in history.

Recent anti-corruption measures have contributed to making American government worse.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton gave a speech that will most likely be remembered as the start of her 2016 Presidential campaign.

President Obama is doing precisely what Senator Obama warned us about.

The Chain Gang Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

President Obama’s poll numbers seem to be suffering under the weight of nearly two months of scandals and/ media attention.

Congress gets bad grades in Gallup’s latest poll, and gridlock is the main reason

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

Turkey has had along and ongoing struggle with democratic consolidation.

TIME says Cuccinelli vs. McAuliffe is “The Dirtiest, Nastiest, Low-Down Campaign In America.”

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

John McCain is taking a break from advocating yet another war in the Middle East to make war against cable television companies.

Last night, the Atlantic Council honored Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, John S. Watson, Tony Bennett, and Juanes.

Rand Paul’s questions about the nation’s drone war were only the beginning.

The gambling mogul is self-reporting violations of the law against bribing foreign officials.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether limits on contributions to political candidates is Constitutional.

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

The Law School Bubble has imploded.

If you thought the War On Terror might be over, think again.

Younger voters are starting to become as cynical as the rest of us.

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

It’s been two months since the President has taken questions from the reporters who cover him.

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.