Outside the Beltway

Gun control has faded as a political issue as the memory of Newtown has faded, and that was entirely predictable.

Is Mike Huckabee about to re-enter politics in a big way?

The Tea Party hit another new polling low, but that really shouldn’t be much of a surprise.

Republicans have some good ideas about overhauling how they pick a nominee. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how most of them can be enforced.

Time to start talking about lame ducks?

A budget deal has been reached, now it has to get through both Chambers of Congress.

The Obama-Castro handshake at Mandela’s funeral has caused a bit of an uproar.

Congressman Steve Stockman’s primary challenge of Senator John Cornyn could be a big deal, or, more likely, it could be a dud.

Democracy was nice while it lasted.

In 1789, George Washington took office after being elected by only a small portion of the population of the U.S. Does that mean he wasn’t “democratically elected?”

Irony is officially dead.

Much like the guy who’s afraid to talk to girls in High School, Republicans don’t seem to know how to talk to women. But their problems are actually bigger than that.

80 years ago, Prohibition ended. However, we are still making the same mistakes that were made from 1920 to 1933.

The junior Senator from Massachusetts has promised to serve her entire six-year term.

Millenials don’t seem very concerned about signing up for ObamaCare, and they’re not very thrilled with Obama at the moment either.

A new poll finds the American public far less supportive of the idea of the U.S. as the world’s policeman.

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The Federal Exchange website seems to be functioning better, but many questions about implementation of the PPACA remain to be answered.

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

Dana Milbank offers a nonsensical reason for denying our youth the freedom to choose their own path.

Chris Christie has had a very good month, and it’s ending with him with a strong lead among potential Republican candidates for 2016.

A third term for any of these guys? Don’t count on it.

Politics aside, the challenges to the PPACA’s birth control mandate raise important legal issues.

A State Department announcement about consolidation of diplomatic posts in Rome has led to the latest round of Obama Derangement Syndrome.

The Obama White House dropped some big news as everyone headed out of town.

The Justice Department is reportedly not planning to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in connection with the Bradley Manning case.

The opponents of the temporary deal reached in Geneva have been making some ridiculous historical analogies.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases that implicates both the First Amendment and two Federal Laws.