Outside the Beltway

The politics of gun control is not nearly as easy as its supporters believe it to be.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

There’s a very simple reason why gun control is stalling in Congress despite its popularity in the polls.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

A former Navy SEAL charges that Blackwater snipers killed American citizens in New Orleans during Katrina’s aftermath.

The Supreme Court has ducked an opportunity to expand the holdings in D.C. v. Heller

Are we heading toward an era where a diagnosis of mental illness becomes an instrument for state oppression?

A mix of media and abortion politics.

A preventative strike against North Korea is a bad idea.

Keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people while protecting individual liberty isn’t easy.

A case from Missouri provides an excellent example of why it matters that states forbid people who love each other from being married.

Whether in the blogosphere or on television, people are increasingly only accessing sources of news and opinion that confirm their pre-conceived ideas.

The Senate looks like it’s about ready to take up a bipartisan immigration reform package.

The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.

Mother Jones’s recording of a secret McConnell campaign strategy meeting is much less than meets the eye.

The GOP’s decision to filibuster the Senate Gun Control Bill doesn’t make a lot of political sense.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

The odds for a party switch in the House of Representatives remain quite low.

The reaction to President Obama’s comments about Kamala Harris raise interesting questions about propriety in the modern world.