Outside the Beltway

A little known Congressman from North Carolina has filed a motion to “remove” John Boehner from the Speakership.

Hillary Clinton has suffered drops in her favorability numbers lately, but that may not mean much for 2016.

Chris Christie says he would ignore states that have legalized marijuana if he became President. Fortunately, he will most likely never be President.

After 30 years in prison, Jonathan Pollard will be released later this year.

A long standing policy against gay Scout Leaders has been repealed.

With just over a week to go, Republican candidates for President are fighting for the movement in the polls that could get them in to the August 6th debate.

Low costs and regulatory barriers are attracting people to red states–thus turning them purple and blue.

Once again, Donald Trump is succeeding because he is saying things many Republicans agree with.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

His remarks about John McCain’s military service don’t seem to be hurting Donald Trump with Republican true believers.

Get ready for another pointless political circus.

Donald Trump is throwing a temper tantrum in Iowa.

Reports are circulating that the Obama Administration is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard, and many are seeing it as an effort to placate Israel in the wake of the Iran deal.

Hillary Clinton’s two biggest challengers were ambushed at a progressive political convention over the weekend.

A big win in Court for the former Texas Governor, but it’s unclear what this means politically.

Did Hillary Clinton mishandle classified information while Secretary of State? Two Inspectors General want to find out.

The gas tax was last raised in 1993.

Donald Trump won’t rule out running against the eventual Republican nominee. Will the RNC use this as an excuse to try to force him out of the race?

Removing the responsibility to investigate police misconduct from the prosecutors who have to work with those police on a daily basis is a good idea.

We are still a ways from actual voting–this needs to be remembered.

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

This is not a serious Presidential campaign, it is a bloviating sideshow.

An authoritarian ego trip for all to see.

Polling in three battleground states shows Hillary Clinton slightly trailing three top Republicans, but it means far less than you might think.

Good news for the President.

Ohio Governor John Kasich looks good on paper, but his campaign seems as though it’s unlikely to get out of the starting gate.

Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.

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.

There are mutual embassies in Havana and Washington for the first time in 54 years. It certainly took long enough.

Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.

A few days late, but a story worth noting if it has escaped notice.

There’s another round of reports about Joe Biden running for President, but I wouldn’t put much stock them.

Donald Trump stuck his foot in his mouth again.

The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.

Relying on a particularly strained and incredulous legal analysis, the EEOC has ruled that laws against discrimination based on gender also bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.

Despite the clear language of the 14th Amendment, Texas is apparently refusing to issue birth certificates to some children born in the United States whose parents happen to be in the country illegally.

Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.

Donald Trump leads in a new national poll, but a deeper look at the numbers suggests that this Trump Bubble can’t last for very much longer.

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

Depending on who you listen to, it’s either peace in our time or an epic catastrophe.