Outside the Beltway

While conservatives have been generally as appalled as others with the news out of Staten Island, some of them are looking in the wrong place for blame.

Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.

The Office of Legal Counsel told the president Wednesday he couldn’t do what he did on Thursday.

An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.

After the 2010 elections, several newly Republican state legislatures flirted with the idea of changing the way their state allocates Electoral Votes. The outcome of last weeks elections raises the possibility that this could happen again.

Republicans performed better among Latino voters this year than they did in 2012, but that doesn’t mean they’ve solved their problems.

Support for legalizing marijuana continues to grow slowly but surely.

States may not add to Federal requirements for voter registration, the Court rules. Which makes perfect sense.

Despite conventional wisdom, there remains little incentive for the GOP to change its position on immigration reform.

The Supreme Court’s expansion of same-sex marriage seems to be sitting well with the American public.

Opponents of Voter ID laws should not get too excited over the fact that the Supreme Court has stayed Wisconsin’s law from going into effect for now.

In the space of one week, we’ve gone from 19 states that recognize same-sex marriage to 29. Soon, it will be 35.

Two more states are added to the list, with another three likely not far behind.

An unsurprising decision from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

Politics, the law, culture, and a very old language collide.

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

A new poll indicates that NFL fans plan to keep watching despite the recent domestic abuse scandals.

Congress seems ready to avoid having to vote on expanded attacks against the Islamic State

Alabamians like to exclaim, “Thank God for Mississippi.” Perhaps it’s time for that slogan to cross the Pond.

There are plenty of other factors that help our two major parties retain power.

The American people don’t want to turn those migrant children from Central America away after all.

Rick Perry is sending 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to the border for no apparent reason.

What could possibly go wrong?

The sad truth is that the bipartisanship that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 no longer exists today.

Iraq is falling apart for reasons that have nothing to do with President Obama or his policies.

The Obama White House rejected Republican criticism of the deal that led to the release of the only American Prisoner Of War from the Afghanistan War.

Eric Shinseki resigned as Secretary of Veterans Affairs this morning, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

Is support for marriage equality now an issue that can benefit Democrats at the polls?

The GOP “establishment” keeps beating back challenges.

The Mason-Dixon Line says it starts in Maryland, but that no longer seems to be the case.

The Justice Department thinks police should be able to search the smart phones of anyone arrested for anything.

How did the west become part of the US?

Crony capitalism in The Sooner State.

An appeal declined, but an issue that remains outstanding.

The CEO of Mozilla resigned today amid controversy over his position on same-sex marriage. The triumph of “political correctness,” or just the will of the marketplace?

A pattern continues.