Outside the Beltway

Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy vision leaves much to be desired.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

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

California’s Governor has vetoed a bill that would have reversed a very misguided decision by that state’s Supreme Court.

Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” has changed the rules of the game, for now.

Where should we look to understand the failings of the government?

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

Is there a trade-off in being polite?

The Texas Governor was taking it from all sides at last night’s Tea Party Debate.

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

The short-lived national unity spawned by the attacks of a decade ago was re-kindled for a few hours as former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush joined with Vice President Joe Biden to honor Flight 93.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Is the NYPD becoming too much like the CIA?

Does Ron Paul’s second place showing at Ames mean the media should take him seriously as a contender? No, it doesn’t.

On reflection, the nature of Marcus Bachmann’s influence over his wife is indeed a legitimate question in a political campaign.

Condi Rice’s speechwriter thinks Huntsman can appeal to the Tea Party.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after Osama bin Laden was killed two weeks ago. They’ve already settled back to where they were

If former President George W. Bush has any bitterness that Osama bin Laden was finally killed under his successor, he’s not showing it.

Pakistan is trying to explain how the world’s most wanted man was able to hide in plain sight for six years, and failing badly.

The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.

Osama bin Laden is dead, but he’s succeeded in changing America for the worse.

How exactly was the most wanted man in the world able to hide in this house without anyone in Pakistan knowing about it?

Nine years into a war that seems to be without end, it’s time to declare victory and go home.

The Obama Justice Department says it can look at phone records without warrants or judicial oversight.

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.

Time for midterms.

Jared Loughner could have possibly been stopped, and treated, if someone had said something.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

The usage of the recess appointment process is just another example of the need for institutional reform in the Senate.

Republicans were largely silent during the Bush Administration as spending went out of control. Will they do that again?

The latest wrong of documents from Wikileaks show that American diplomats are as worried about Pakistan as the rest of us, and not quite sure how to deal with the situation.

Thanks to a combination of good intelligence and fast action, it looks like the U.S. and UK avoided a serious attack on airliners last week.

The military surge in Afghanistan appears to be having little impact on the Taliban.

The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

According to a new book from Bob Woorward, American policy in Afghanistan is the result of a decision making process that can only be described as chaotic at best.

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

President Obama didn’t use the words “Mission Accomplished” last night, but the message was the same.