Outside the Beltway

Trying to make sense of a very complicated issue.

The current Congress is on course to be the least productive in decades.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.

What could possibly go wrong?

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.

There are legitimate issues regarding Presidential overreach and separation of powers that President Obama’s actions while in office have raised. But none of that will be discussed in our hyperpartisan political culture.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

A piece at Foreign Policy provides a chance to give some thought to institutions.

A US-EU free trade zone is a no-brainer. But the devil is in the details.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

Americans disapprove of how the President is handling Iraq, but they don’t like what his critics are proposing either.

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

Obama is the worst President since FDR died? Only if you believe a mostly worthless poll.

Public faith in government institutions is at all all time low.

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

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.

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

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

A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.

The evidence is clear. When it comes to the ability to handle foreign crises, the President has lost the public’s confidence.

The South Dakota Republican Party has officially endorsed the impeachment of President Obama.

The House leadership elections turned out about as expected, but we may be doing this all over again in five months.

Recent events in Iraq have opened up old domestic political arguments in the United States.

More bad poll numbers for the President.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

If President Obama does decide to use military force in Iraq, he should be required to seek Congressional approval beforehand.

Some bad news for the President.

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

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

An unknown Tea Party candidate unexpectedly beat the House Leader in today’s GOP primary.

Thanks largely to Administration mistakes, the Bergdahl deal is not going over well.

Apparently, things were tougher in Chappaqua, New York and on D.C.’s Embassy Row than we ever imagined.

Hillary Clinton remains at the top of the polls, but she’s got at least one big vulnerability.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.