Outside the Beltway

Republicans aren’t going to like this one.

Things that make you go hmmmm…..

The era of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act is over.

Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.

Matthew Dickinson takes a stab at explaining “Why So Many Republicans Are Running in 2016.”

The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.

Pete Rose’s efforts at rehabilitation may have just been fatally injured.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared in public for what is likely the last time in his life, apologized for the crimes he committed, and was unsurprisingly sentenced to death by a Federal Judge.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal enters the Presidential race today, but it’s hard to see how he even manages to become a plausible candidate.

Chris Christie appears set to enter the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, but voters back home in New Jersey don’t seem to think very highly of him anymore.

David Frum calls for several measures to reduce gun violence.

Virginia Republicans are deciding later this week how they will make their choice in the 2016 Presidential Race. And they may end up regretting their decision.

An important tenet of the internet is “don’t read the comments.” Well, I have violated that rule of late–which means more musings on the symbols of the CSA.

The Supreme Court ruled that police are not entitled to access to a hotel registry without a warrant.

A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton remains largely unstoppable on her quest for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, and she has a pretty clear path to the White House as well.

PolitiFact rates President Obama’s claim that other countries don’t have mass shootings at rates comparable to America”Mostly False.”

The Confederate battle flag is suddenly toxic.

As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.

The Supreme Court has struck down a program that forced farmers to turn over a portion of their crop to the government without compensation.

The tide has turned.

President Obama gave an interesting and somewhat unusual interview to a podcaster late last week, but the media is obsessed over a single word.

Jeb Bush’s campaign launch seems to be going well so far, while Rand Paul and Ted Cruz (and Donald Trump) seem to be slipping.

The debate is ultimately academic.

With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.

Well, that didn’t take long.

Taylor Swift is taking a stand against Apple’s new streaming music service, and she’s largely right.

It’s easier for an American citizen to go to Iran or North Korea than it is for them to go to Cuba, That’s insane.

As early as tomorrow, the Supreme Court could issue its ruling in the latest Obamacare case. Depending on the ruling, Republicans could find themselves in a political firestorm.

It’s been obvious from the moment the news broke that the murders in Charleston were rooted in racism, but some Republicans have had trouble acknowledging that.

A 19 year old from Indiana faces a quarter century as a registered sex offender because he met a girl who lied about her age.

The nine-year-old ‘Army Strong’ ad campaign is ended.

The murders in Charleston have revived a debate that should have been over a long time ago.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

Was this simply ordinary intelligence collection? Or something more insidious?

More Democrats are calling themselves “liberal” than they have in years. Republicans, too.