Outside the Beltway

The Generic Congressional Ballot has shifted again, but how long will this trend last?

Some Members of Congress are talking about pushing a bill imposing new sanction on Iran despite the deal reached in Geneva yesterday.

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

We have a certified “winner” in the Virginia Attorney General’s race, but where it heads from here is still up in the air.

Republican hardliners are pushing a position on immigration that is completely out of sync with the nation as a whole.

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

Another conflict between the Obama Administration and a news media that is frustrated about the extent they are being controlled by being refused access.

Small steps from both sides in the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but too early to say that we’ve reached a solution.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

The GOP seems to be shifting strategy on the Affordable Care Act.

Yesterday’s change to the filibuster rule is likely to have little impact outside the beltway and the political chattering class.

Guess what’s coming to the dinner table.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.

Are we headed for another Federal Government shutdown, or will Congress actually do its job this time?

After the GOP blocked a series of Obama judicial nominees, Democrats are again threatening to go nuclear on filibuster reform.

Another government mandate that doesn’t address a real problem.

When worlds collide.

A leaked internal email has the Army in hot water with feminists.

The trends in President Obama’s approval numbers are not moving in the direction he ought to want them to go.

Was the Jobs Report released one month before Election Day 2012 rigged? Despite a new report, there’s no evidence to suggest that it was.

The mounting troubles of the PPACA continue.

The juxtaposition of two stories in the Marine Times strikes me as odd.

The Junior Senator from Kentucky does some re-writing of history.

Do Voter ID laws really suppress voter turnout? The evidence from at least one state doesn’t prove it.

It is clear the President has been failed by those under him. So, when is someone going to pay the price?

The Imperial Presidency didn’t start with Barack Obama, but his PPACA “fix” does much to expand it into questionable new territory.

A contrite President Obama offered a “fix” for one of the biggest problems that the PPACA has created.

A top House Republican suggested today that only Governor’s should be President. His argument has both practical and historical merit.

Congressional Democrats are not very pleased with the White House right now.

As expected, the enrollment numbers for Obamacare are far below where they were expected to be.