Outside the Beltway

Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act itself an unconstitutional Establishment of Religion barred by the First Amendment? There’s a compelling argument that it is.

The streak continues.

There’s been far too much hysteria and hyperbole when it comes to ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws.

One of the most repeated comments about the 2016 race is based on something that just isn’t true.

Another area where the law has yet to catch up to technology.

The burgeoning science of additive manufacturing is on the verge of being able to print functioning human organs.

How long should we expect people to work?

The Supreme Court has limited the ability of public employee unions to force people to join their ranks.

Is ISIS’s reach about to exceed its grasp?

Hobby Lobby wins, but it’s unclear just how far this opinion will go.

Mitch McConnell is making promises to pro-life groups that the GOP probably won’t keep, but it’s still a politically risky move.

A Federal Appeals Court has struck down a D.C. law requiring tour guides to get a license and pass a test.

And odd report from Washington Post and Stars and Stripes.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

For some reason, President Obama wants to arm so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

The Supreme Court has saved the biggest case of the term for its last day.

Well this is a unique defense.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

Is ISIS about to make the situation in the Levant even worse?

Mississippi goes from bizarre to, well, even more bizarre.

It turns out there was much less to that Scott Walker document dump than the press coverage claimed.

Native American names are everywhere.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

If current trends holds, Democratic candidates are going to have a problem turning out voters in November.

A century later, the shots fired in Sarajevo 100 years ago still echo.

We’ve seen a notable number of 9-0 Supreme Court decisions this term, but that doesn’t mean that the side that lost was making an extreme or meritless argument.

A new poll suggests that Republicans could be losing a constituency that is very key for them in the nation’s third most populous state.

My latest for The Hill, co-authored with Butch Bracknell: “Explaining the Sinclair demotion.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Neoconservatives, the Iraq Debate and Ad Hominem Attacks,” has posted.

Another solid victory for the First Amendment from the Roberts Court.

House Republicans go to war against marijuana in the District of Columbia

One of Washington’s giants has passed away.

The Supreme Court rules that Recess Appointments can only be made when there’s actually a Congressional recess.