Outside the Beltway

Pope Francis has earned a reputation as a liberal in comparison to recent predecessors but he’s no liberal.

Even with a House and Senate majority, the GOP is unlikely to get what it wants in its current immigration battle with the President.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama’s Paris Blunder: Part of a Much Bigger Problem,” has posted.

A former Democratic state legislator in Virginia was re-elected last night despite the fact that he’s in jail.

Elizabeth Warren said once again that she’s not running for President, now or in the future. That’s not going to stop the efforts to draft her, though.

The price of oil is continuing to fall, but it won’t last forever.

Their editor and nine colleagues dead, their offices destroyed, the newspaper is not missing a beat.

Some are criticizing the President for not going to Paris for yesterday’s rally.

President Obama’s decision on Keystone XL is apparently to delay things long enough so he doesn’t have to decide at all.

The terrorism wave that began with the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices has not ended with the killing of the perpetrators. A follow-on attack has occurred in Germany and there are reports of “sleeper cells” being activated in France.

West Virginia’s Joe Manchin is reportedly mulling leaving the Senate to run once again for a job where he’d have the ability to actually accomplish something.

David Petraeus provided highly classified secrets to his mistress. Will he be charged?

He’s tan. He’s rested. And, apparently, he’s ready. Mitt Romney seems very interested in 2016 all of a sudden.

The men responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre are dead, but the problems for France, and the rest of Europe, may just be at the beginning.

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

December’s jobs growth numbers were very good, but the numbers below the headlines show that there’s still work to be done.

The terror attack in Paris seems likely to undercut GOP efforts to use the DHS budget to attack the President’s immigration policies.

Bill Donohue rightly condemns insulting Muslims—but goes way too far.

Just one day into the new Congress, the first confrontation is already set.

At least 11 are dead and 10 wounded in an attack on free expression.

You come at the king, you best not miss.

Some will say two years isn’t long enough, but under the circumstances it seems appropriate.

In the end, the Tea Party challenge to John Boehner was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Over the weekend, Mike Huckabee took another step that suggests that he is indeed planning on running for President in 2016.

Several Tea Party backed Members of Congress claim to be challenging John Boehner in tomorrow’s vote for Speaker. They are, of course, delusional.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

Can ESPN cover sports while partnering with the sports leagues?

An entirely unsurprising decision from Federal Prosecutors in Washington, D.C.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

Some preliminary thoughts on the inaugural college playoff system.

A Federal Judge has dismissed the first lawsuit filed against President Obama’s immigration “executive action.”

The news cycle in 2014 seemed to be dominated by a series of real and phony “crises” that grabbed our attention for short periods of time.