Outside the Beltway

Dylann Roof has been indicted in Federal Court for completely unnecessary reasons.

The Afghan Army isn’t doing so well against the Taliban right now.

Good news for the President.

Any discussion of the Iran deal has to be about realistic alternatives, not fantasies.

The U.N. Security Council has approved the Iranian nuclear deal, and now the ball is in Congress’s court.

Tragedy in Tennessee.

In the end, the odds that Congress can actually stop the new deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program are pretty low.

The unqualified hack who led OPM while China stole 21 million sensitive personnel files has finally resigned.

For the first time since 1961, there will soon be an American Embassy in Havana, and a Cuban Embassy in Washington. It’s well past time that this happened.

The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.

Good for her.

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

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.

David Frum calls for several measures to reduce gun violence.

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

The debate is ultimately academic.

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?

Marine special operations forces have called themselves “Raiders” for years. Now it’s official.

The Supreme Court ruled that states don’t have to grant license plates that display the Confederate flag. Their decision has the potential to seriously harm the First Amendment.

A well-founded fear of ISIS seems to be drawing many of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia closer to Moscow.

In what seems to be a clear signal to Russia, the U.S. is considering pre-positioning military equipment in nation’s very close to Russian borders.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

A Federal Appeals Court In Washington has ruled that the military tribunal convictions of one group of Guantanamo Bay detainees was unconstitutional.

The American people don’t believe that liberty should be sacrificed in the name of security, but their leaders largely don’t care.

In a case that took seven months to decide, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Presidency’s broad authority in foreign affairs, and inserted itself just a little bit in the thorny politics of the Middle East.

An Air Force general is bragging about a targeting technique being used against ISIS.

The Senate passed a bill that renews, and modifies, the Patriot Act

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.

Many provisions of the Patriot Act lapsed at midnight, but apparently the world hasn’t ended.

The Senate returns tomorrow to try to pass an extension of the PATRIOT Act before it expires, but it may not be able to do so.

Another step forward toward ending a U.S. policy regarding Cuba that was outdated twenty years ago.

A woman discharged from the Marine Corps for violating multiple direct orders is fighting to the highest military court.

Rand Paul is out with one of his more forceful attacks on Republican hawks to date.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

The Senate went home last night without passing a bill to renew the PATRIOT Act, which expires at the end of the month.

Who knew terrorists had an H.R. Department?

Rand Paul held the Senate floor for nearly twelve hours yesterday to talk about the PATRIOT Act, but it’s unclear if he accomplished anything.

Hillary Clinton has admitted she made a mistake in supporting the Iraq War in 2002, but there are plenty of other questions she needs to answer when it comes to foreign interventions.

Marco Rubio is the latest Republican Presidential candidate to have a problem giving a coherent answer to a few simple questions about the Iraq War.

President Obama is taking steps to reduce police militarization, but there’s much more that needs to be done.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

Final justice, but far from the end of the road.