Outside the Beltway

Victoria Jackson has thus far been less successful in politics than her fellow SNL alum Al Franken.

Americans have become deeply cynical about government. To some extent that is a good thing, but it’s reaching unhealthy levels.

For the second time in just over ten years, the United States is involved in military action in Iraq.

A big setback for Mississippi’s erstwhile Tea Party candidate for Senate.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

Debbie Dingell is set to continue an 80 year legacy of Dingells occupying the same seat in the House of Representatives. That’s not a good thing.

There is simply no evidence of the kind of in-person voter impersonation that Voter ID Laws were designed to prevent.

No, it’s not over yet.

Despite a high profile effort to oust him, the most prominent libertarian Republican in Congress survived his primary challenge yesterday.

David Trott’s victory in Michigan’s District 11 Republican House primary marks the first time this year a Republican Establishment candidate has upset a Tea Party Incumbent.

Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.

Legality and justice are not always in synch.

Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.

For a party that says its not interested in impeachment, the GOP sure keeps bringing it up.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

Six weeks have passed since the primary, and Chris McDaniel has revealed he really doesn’t have much to complain about other than the fact that he lost.

Ugh.

Our non-competitive political system.

The current immigration debate is yet another great example of how our system works (so to speak).

Fun with praxeology.

Once again, we are reminded that the fact that people feel strongly about an issue does not mean it’s one that will cause them to get out and vote.

Some words from the past, apparently uttered mere hours before the world changed forever.

Another Obamacare case is heading to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear if they’ll agree to hear it, or when they’d hear it if they did.

While not as big as previous months, the July Jobs Report was still mostly good news.

The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.

Once again, the Tea Party has gotten the best of House GOP Leadership.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

The usual suspects are blocking any action at all on the border crisis.

Notwithstanding the hype, there’s one very big reason why the idea of Elizabeth Warren as a viable candidate for President doesn’t make much sense.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

The trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife opened yesterday, and it sounded more like a soap opera than a legal proceeding.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected a challenge to Obamacare based on a somewhat obscure provision of the Constitution.

The American people don’t want to turn those migrant children from Central America away after all.