Outside the Beltway

Some interesting polls out of Virginia today, but McAuliffe is still the clear leader in this race.

There is far less overlap between the two parties in the House–and the shift has been empirically rightward.

It’s no wonder there’s no compromise in Congress.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

“If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.” Well, not really.

There’s still a week to go in Virginia’s Governor’s race, but it’s clear that this race is effectively over.

A partial setback for the pro-life crowd out of Texas.

According to reports, the President had no idea that the NSA was listening to the phone calls of foreign leaders until this summer.

Roger Goodell wants to see the NFL expand to Los Angeles and London. One city seems like an obvious choice, the other not so much.

The latest revelations about National Security Agency surveillance outside the United States have caused quite an uproar overseas.

Few subjects rile members and veterans of military service more than changes to the uniform.

The faux scandal of today comes to us courtesy of The Daily Caller: “Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website.”

With debate season over, it’s looking less and less likely that Virginia Republicans will be able to hold back the Democrats on November 5th.

The prospect of Congressional action on immigration before the midterms just got a whole lot less likely.

Is Iran really just one month from producing a nuclear weapon?

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to have soured in recent years.

Women in Texas who changed their name when they got married may have trouble voting.

The good folks at The Guardian wonder, “Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?”

The bad roll out of the Affordable Care Act is starting to lead to calls for delays in enforcement of the law.

Several conservative groups have jumped on the bandwagon of what appears to be a controversial Mississippi politician.

Jofi Joseph was unmasked as the obnoxious @NatSecWonk and fired by the White House.

Chris Christie’s decision to take a tactical retreat on the issue of same-sex marriage raises some interesting questions for 2016.

Nothing to write home about in the September Jobs Report.