Outside the Beltway

Big news out of Washington, D.C.

One week after the second Republican debate, Donald Trump is still at the top of the GOP field, and that doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon.

When did “politics” become a dirty word?

A Federal Judge has ruled that the copyright to ‘Happy Birthday To You’ has been invalid for at least the past eighty years.

Vice-President Biden continues to rise in the polls even though he has yet to actually enter the race for President.

A true legend has passed.

The Club For Growth has released two ads criticizing Donald Trump, so of course Trump is threatening to sue them.

Congress has just over a week to pass a funding bill, and it’s not looking very good.

Two gone: 14 to go.

Once a candidate that many believed could become the Republican nominee, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is dropping out of the race for President.

The pressure on Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to expand the 2016 debate schedule is increasing.

Hillary Clinton seems to be bouncing back from recent troubles in the latest national poll, but Vice-President Biden is starting to rise in the polls before even getting in the race.

The U.S. is set to ramp up its contribution to dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis, but there’s a lot more we can do.

The first significant national polls taken in the wake of last week’s debate show that Donald Trump has slipped somewhat, but still remains the clear leader of the Republican race for President.

More bigotry in the campaign.

Time is running out for Joe Biden to make a decision about running for President, and it’s still not clear what he’ll do.

A lawyer for one of the Deputy Clerks working for Kim Davis raises the concern that she is once again interfering with the issuance of marriage licenses in violation of a Federal Court Order.

There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.

More than 23 million people watched the debate Wednesday night.

The final effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal failed in the Senate yesterday, meaning that the deal will now move forward.

At a town hall last night in New Hampshire, it became clear just what kind of supporters Donald Trump’s demagoguery is attracting.

After months of hinting that interest rates would be rising this month, signs of economic weakness led the Federal Reserve to hold back.

With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.

The latest effort by conservative Republicans to oust John Boehner appears to be coming to an unsurprising end.

The Republican candidates for President took to the stage last night for a debate that seemed to last forever and accomplished nothing.

What was promoted as major foreign policy speech by Donald Trump turned out to be more substance-free stream-of-consciousness rambling from an egomaniac.

A Texas 9th Grader named Ahmed Mohammed was arrested because school officials and police refused to believe that the clock he built wasn’t a bomb.

Polling shows that Republicans increasingly see Donald Trump as Presidential and trustworthy. The rest of America disagrees.

Even taking the fact that he is the Republican frontrunner into account, Donald Trump is getting a disproportionate amount of attention from the political media.

With two weeks left until the Federal Government runs out of money, and the issue still quite unresolved, a new poll shows that the vast majority of Americans would oppose a government shutdown over funding for Planned Parenthood.

Ben Carson has no government experience, he has a history of saying things that don’t seem grounded in reality, and he lacks the resources for a credible campaign. And yet, he’s closing in on Donald Trump in the polls.

To listen to many of the Republican candidates for President, it would appear that the lights have been turned out on Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis says she won’t interfere in the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Donald Trump and Ben Carson remain at the top of the Republican Presidential field heading into the second debate on Wednesday.

Contrary to his claims, Donald Trump would not win the Latino vote if he were the nominee. In fact, it looks like he’d end up doing much, much worse.

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

Britain’s Labour Party has taken a hard tilt left with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader.

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around anymore.

Scott Walker used to have a commanding lead in Iowa, now he’s in 7th place. That’s just another sign of the troubles facing his campaign.

Vice-President Biden dropped another hint that suggests he might not be up to running for President.