Outside the Beltway

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz landed some punches on Donald Trump last night, but it’s doubtful that they changed the nature of the race.

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79.

January’s Jobs Report was nothing to write home about.

St. Louis will lose its second NFL team in 28 years as the Rams go home to LA.

A new study suggests that being a national leader may shorten your expected lifespan.

The quadrennial fantasy of a brokered convention, which American politics has not seen since 1952, is rearing its head again, and it’s no more likely now than it was when we talked about this four years ago.

The Justice Department has launched a widespread investigation into the operation of the Chicago Police Department in the wake of the murder of LaQuan McDonald.

The Supreme Court has declined to accept an appeal challenging a law barring certain types of so-called ‘assault weapons’ in a Chicago suburb.

The November Jobs Report was good, but there still aren’t signs of the kind of stronger economic growth we need to see.

No, there really haven’t been 355 ‘mass shootings’ since January 1st. Not unless you’re relying on completely unreliable data.

The October 2014 shooting of 17 year old LaQuan McDonald is beginning to have a political impact in Chicago and could have national political implications as well.

Given his rhetoric, it’s fairly clear that Donald Trump is drawing from a poisonous political well. So there’s no point in failing to acknowledge reality.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

A Chicago Police Officer has been charged with murder in the death of a 17 year old African-American male that, from the evidence that has been released, seems completely unjustifiable.

Paradoxically, the children of affluent parents are less happy than those of the poor.

Another European capital is on edge over fears of a terror attack.

Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee recently kept company with a very disturbing religious leader.

France launched its first attacks against ISIS even as the investigation into Friday’s attacks continues, but it’s not clear that the retaliation really accomplished anything.

Ben Carson and his supporters would have you believe that he is being subjected to unprecedented and unfair scrutiny. That assertion is completely false.

Houston voters rejected a broad anti-discrimination law largely due to a campaign that focused almost exclusively on concerns about transgender rights.

Two new polls show that political efforts to enact more stringent gun control at the national level are not likely to succeed.

September’s Jobs Report was disappointing to say the least, and calls into question the Federal Reserve’s apparent plan to raise interest rates in the near future.

After months of hinting that interest rates would be rising this month, signs of economic weakness led the Federal Reserve to hold back.

A Texas 9th Grader named Ahmed Mohammed was arrested because school officials and police refused to believe that the clock he built wasn’t a bomb.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is doing a reset in the face of declining poll numbers and bad press.

China adds to its status as the honey badger of intellectual property law.

A few days late, but a story worth noting if it has escaped notice.

Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.

The winners of the Women’s World Cup will get paid far less than the men that played last year, but that’s not because of sexism.

Pete Rose’s efforts at rehabilitation may have just been fatally injured.

So much for freedom of speech.

In a setback for the gun rights movement, the Supreme Court has let stand a San Francisco law that places tough restrictions on handgun ownership.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been charged criminally for its role in covering up sexual abuse of children by Priests.

The next shoe drops in the Dennis Hastert case.

Los Angeles became the latest major city to increase its minimum wage. It’s a risky bet that is likely to do more harm than good.

A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

Jeb Bush told a group of supporters that his brother is his top Middle East policy adviser. This strikes me as being a bad idea.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

Like nearly all of his fellow Republicans, Jeb Bush has adopted the disastrous foreign policy views that typified his brother’s Presidency.