Outside the Beltway

Legality and justice are not always in synch.

Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.

For a party that says its not interested in impeachment, the GOP sure keeps bringing it up.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

Six weeks have passed since the primary, and Chris McDaniel has revealed he really doesn’t have much to complain about other than the fact that he lost.

Ugh.

The war in Gaza seems to be winding down, but the underlying issues remain.

Our non-competitive political system.

The current immigration debate is yet another great example of how our system works (so to speak).

Fun with praxeology.

In some sense, justice has prevailed.

Once again, we are reminded that the fact that people feel strongly about an issue does not mean it’s one that will cause them to get out and vote.

Some words from the past, apparently uttered mere hours before the world changed forever.

Another Obamacare case is heading to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear if they’ll agree to hear it, or when they’d hear it if they did.

While not as big as previous months, the July Jobs Report was still mostly good news.

A glimmer of hope in Gaza is quickly snuffed out.

The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.

Once again, the Tea Party has gotten the best of House GOP Leadership.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

The usual suspects are blocking any action at all on the border crisis.

Notwithstanding the hype, there’s one very big reason why the idea of Elizabeth Warren as a viable candidate for President doesn’t make much sense.

Scottish independence may be more likely than many think.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

The Israeli public if overwhelmingly behind the war in Gaza, and that means it will probably continue for awhile.

A much better Second Quarter.

The U.S. and Europe have announced a new round of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but it’s not clear that the Russians will be motivated to change course.

The trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife opened yesterday, and it sounded more like a soap opera than a legal proceeding.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected a challenge to Obamacare based on a somewhat obscure provision of the Constitution.

LTG Michael Flynn says the United States is no safer after 13 years of war