Outside the Beltway

(And a Postscript on Recent Discussion of the South)

The Supreme Court heard argument in a major campaign finance case yesterday.

With just hours to go, the Republicans on Capitol Hill seem prepared to take a big political risk.

The Miley Cyrus of college football will be back too soon.

The notion that the past has been fully settled is simply incorrect and our debates over symbols illustrate this fact.

Down in Alabama, the Stupid Party is being particularly stupid.

Unfortunately, our immigration debate is just plain dumb.

The US Postal Service is struggling to make delivery more efficient.

Michelle Nunn is running for her dad’s old Senate seat.

Until this month, America was not truly a free country.

If Stevie Wonder were still touring, he wouldn’t be making stops in states with “Stand Your Ground” laws.

The latest House GOP pronouncements on immigration reform make it exceedingly unlikely that any bill will pass this year.

Absent DOMA, the Full Faith and Credit Clause would seem to make gay marriage legal across the land.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

The Supreme Court today struck down the most controversial part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A major Constitutional ruling from the Supreme Court.

When Glen Coffee abruptly retired from a promising NFL career, most wondered what he was up to. Now we know.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

Today’s decision by the Supreme Court was, on the surface, a victory for Federal Supremacy, but the issue itself is far from resolved.

The Chairman of the RNC wants the GOP to hold its quadrennial convention earlier in the year. He’s right.

Why won’t the “women don’t get pregnant from rape” meme die?

A weird story from rural Alabama.

The University of Alabama men’s golf team joins the football, softball, gymnastics, and women’s golf teams as national champions.

When does politics become the “primary activity” of a 501(c)4?

Southerners lie about their weight–but not as much as those lyin’ Yankees.

Mal Moore, who was part of ten football championships at Alabama, has died at 73.

Georgia is in a border dispute with a neighboring state, but it’s not the Georgia you’re thinking of.

DOMA’s trip to SCOTUS was practically baked into the legislation.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

Silly things members of Congress say (plus musings on authoritarianism).

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether limits on contributions to political candidates is Constitutional.

A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.

Auburn’s famed Toomer’s Corner Oaks will be cut down, an acknowledgment that they’ll never be healthy again after an idiot Alabama fan poisoned them.

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

The Blues began a century ago yesterday, with the release of WC Handy’s “Memphis Blues.”

New York Jets quarterback Greg McElroy was experiencing post-concussion syndrome but hid it from the team for days.

The bizarre dynamics of Virginia politics.

A rich child is 45 percent more likely to earn a four-year college degree than a poor one.