Outside the Beltway

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.

Donald Trump is drawing large crowds in Iowa, but at least some of his supporters aren’t sure if they’ll be showing up for the caucuses.

The people who believe there is a ‘War On Christmas” tend to be the same ones who hold to the largely false idea that their religious beliefs are under assault due to a “culture war.”

A Colorado Republican Congressman has introduced a resolution meant to involve our nation’s representatives in the non-existent ‘War On Christmas.’

You may not be aware, but your local Starbucks is the new front in the ‘War On Christmas.’

The pressure on Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to expand the 2016 debate schedule is increasing.

The buffoonish billionaire is tapping into something real.

Gravity announced a minimum annual salary of $70,000. Almost everyone is unhappy.

There’s another round of reports about Joe Biden running for President, but I wouldn’t put much stock them.

Hillary Clinton hasn’t taken questions from reporters in three weeks. Because she doesn’t need the media as much as most other candidates.

The scandal that will make everyone forget about Benghazi.

Rand Paul has changed position on several foreign policy issues, but he doesn’t seem to want to talk about it.

The most ‘America’ story ever.

A hostage crisis has been unfolding overnight at a cafe in Sydney, Australia that has apparent links to international terrorism.

WaPo’s Emily Wax-Thibodeaux reports that, “At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert.”

The announcement of a potential merger between Burger King and Tim Horton’s has led to much moral preening from the usual suspects.

Our laws and social norms have not caught up to modern life.

Target is the latest business to ask customers to leave the guns at home when they go shopping.

Mike Bloomberg’s absurd soda ban is, thankfully, dead.

Hillary Clinton does not come across well when she tries to play the empathy card.

They really love their Starbucks at NBC–and not just on “Morning Joe.”

Many of America’s great writers were alcoholics.

The Economist reports that “The coffee insurgency” is winning.

The FDA is declaring war on trans fats. That’s a bad idea on many levels.

Under 21 in New York City? No more smokes for you!

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

Eleanor Clift reflects on her “final issue after 50 years at Newsweek.”

Another legal setback for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s crusade to regulate what New York City residents can eat and drink.

People who drink more coffee are less likely to kill themselves.

An overweight Republican from the northeast is thinking about running for president. No, not that one.

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

Tax analyst Martin A. Sullivan finds that 1/3rd of “potentially political applications” approved by the IRS were from non-conservative groups.