Outside the Beltway

Do we really need to guard the Tomb of the Unknowns in the midst of a hurricane?

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

One of Mitt Romney’s own supporters didn’t like his foreign policy speech very much.

In order to win, Mitt Romney needs the support of a large segment of the 47% of the populace he wrote off back in May.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

Senator Rand Paul suggests the GOP may want to reconsider its foreign policy aggressiveness.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

The GOP claims to be a party that favors limited government, but its foreign policy positions reveal this to be little more than a lie.

Paul Ryan did what he needed to do last night, but in the long run his speech will be lost to history.

Lindsey Graham: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

The Romney Campaign is reportedly planning a more aggressive campaign against the President for the fall.

Abortion and “legitimate rape” are not what the Romney campaign should be having to deal with this week.

Maybe the real problem this year isn’t that the campaign is unduly nasty, but that it’s incredibly petty.

Since most pedophiles are men, Virgin airlines naturally treats all men as potential pedophiles.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

Has the Romney campaign foolishly abandoned its best argument against the President?

Romney’s new ad on a ruling issued by HHS on welfare-to-work requirements doesn’t pass the smell test.

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

The people trying to undo the Defense Budget sequestration cuts are making some pretty weak arguments.

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.

The cover-up at Penn State was, if anything, worse than we thought,.

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

The debate over whether the PPACA’s individual mandate is a “penalty” or a “tax”seems rather pointless.

One part of the Supreme Court’s PPACA ruling has not received a lot of attention, but it has the potential to have a lot of impact in the future.

Jerry Sandusky is in jail, but the evidence of the crimes that were committed to protect him continues to mount.

Is there a logical flaw in the way Chief Justice Roberts addressed the tax issue in his opinion? Not really.

While it upheld the Affordable Care Act today, the Supreme Court also placed some clear limits on Congressional power. That’s a good thing.

The Republican strategy on health care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision needs some tweaking.

Thanks to a surprising decision by Chief Justice Roberts, the Affordable Care Act has survived the Constitutional challenges against it.

Justice.

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy sees “Good and Bad News for Obama” in Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

The commander of Fort Knox has canceled a Ted Nugent concert after the rocker’s recent rant about President Obama.

It would be nice if policies were assessed in terms of costs and benefits.

OTB’s comment section as a microcosm of the American political landscape.

It seems to have been a rough day for the individual mandate at the Supreme Court.

By the end of today’s first day of hearings on the Affordable Care Act, the Justices seem eager to take the consider the case on the merits.

Dear Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi: The plural of anecdote is not data.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.