Outside the Beltway

Is 435 the right number?

A brain dead woman in Texas is being kept alive while a fetus that is still not viable grows inside of her.

Former SecDef Robert Gates is among those who believes that the Iraq War unduly diverted attention from fighting the War On Terror.

Will a couple closed lanes on the George Washington Bridge end up being a problem for New Jersey’s Chris Christie going forward?

A new book by former SecDef Robert Gates is making political waves in Washington power circles, but will it matter to ordinary Americans?

There are more self-identified Independents in the country than at any time in the past two decades, according to a new Gallup poll. And it’s mostly at the expense of the GOP.

Marijuana legalization is an issue that unites people across the political aisle.

The Iraqis need to learn to govern themselves, and conservatives blaming President Obama for renewed violence need a history lesson.

For the time being at least, same-sex marriage is once again banned in Utah.

There are some signs that there may be room to strike a deal on the extension of unemployment benefits, but it’s likely to require some drama on Capitol Hill before it happens.

The IDF has finally put a woman in command of a battalion. They’re decades behind American forces.

An excellent argument for immigration reform can be found in the case of one Californian named Sergio Garcia.

The false choice that is rampant in drug warrior thinking is the main problem when it comes to good policy.

From Florida, a small victory for Fourth Amendment rights.

The latest news on the marijuana legalization front has led David Brooks and others to go into a completely pathetic panic.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

The Marine Corps’ plan to make women take the same fitness test as men has hit a wee snag.

Has Speaker Boehner breathed new life into immigration reform in the House? Maybe.

Developments overnight in a small but controversial issue raised by the PPACA.

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

Watch your language in Wilson County, North Carolina.

The “good war” no more.

Ted Cruz continues to act as if he hasn’t learned his lessons from the shutdown debacle

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The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

Another Federal District Court ruling on the Constitutionality of the NSA’s data mining program, this time more favorable to the NSA.

So far at least, the 2014 elections do not appear likely to be a political earthquake on the scale of 2006, 2008, or 2010.

Same-sex marriage remains the law of the land in one of the most conservative states in the nation, at least unless the Supreme Court says otherwise.

In a new interview, Edward Snowden explains his motives for absconding from the country with NSA secrets.

A limited ruling out of Ohio with wide ranging implications.