Outside the Beltway

Later today, California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. will plead guilty to charges of embezzling up to $250,000 from his campaign’s bank account.

They know how Congress works, but are banking on the fact that many Americans don’t.

One of the last Republican strongholds in California is now completely blue.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that former F.B.I. Director James Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in regard to the Clinton email investigation, but found no evidence of political bias at the Bureau.

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

Paul Ryan is getting pressure from all sides to get into the race for Speaker Of The House.

Congressman Darrell Issa says that America’s poor are generally better off than the poor in the rest of the world. While he’s correct, he’s also incredibly tone deaf.

The Justice Department will not pursue contempt charges against Lois Lerner because it has determined that she did not waive her rights under the Fifth Amendment.

The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.

Yet more adventures in bad records retention policy at the IRS.

All of a sudden, the IRS announced it doesn’t have communications records it once claimed it did have.

Another victory for the GOP establishment in its battle against the Tea Party.

Despite the fact that she asserted her right against self-incrimination, a House Committee has voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify.

Time to have some sympathy for those poor penny-pinching Congressmen and Senators? Hardly.

Fifth Amendment? They don’t need no Fifth Amendment, apparently.

The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.

Dana Milbank offers a nonsensical reason for denying our youth the freedom to choose their own path.

Polling looks bleak for the GOP right now, but it’s unclear what that will mean a year from now.

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

Not surprisingly, Lois Lerner’s attorney is saying his client will only testify under a grant of immunity.

Lois Lerner is likely headed back to Congress over the largely phony charge that she waived her Fifth Amendment rights.

Today is the deadline for Darryl Issa to respond to a request from Elijah Cummings to defend a decision not to release IRS interview transcripts. What happens if Issa doesn’t respond?

Without full transcripts, the excerpts released by the House Oversight Committee are worthless.

The IRS spent $50 million on 225 employee conferences. What did the taxpayer get in return?

Darrell Issa’s Committee seems headed for a battle over the Fifth Amendment.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

A round of finger pointing in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack.

There’s no evidence that Fast & Furious, whatever it was, was a conspiracy to lobby for tighter gun control laws.

The stage is set for a showdown between the Executive and Legislative Branches.

Is there any legal merit to the Administration’s invocation of Executive Privilege?

The dispute between the Justice Department and the House of Representatives just became a bigger deal.

Many on the right seem unwilling to condemn clearly offensive remarks by Rush Limbaugh

Wikipedia’s English language site will be offline for 24 hours tomorrow to protest two controversial online piracy bills.

Becoming a Member of Congress can be a very lucrative career.

Why was the ATF allowing thousands of weapons to be smuggled to Mexican drug gangs?

We are being warned once again that the Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse. There really is only one solution.