Outside the Beltway

The Holocaust was a very atypical case of genocide.

Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.

Rand Paul is the latest Republican to enter the race, but his path to even becoming a contender is a difficult one at best.

The political media is breathlessly reporting on every event in a campaign that is just beginning, and voters aren’t really paying attention to it at this point.

Jeb Bush is leading the latest poll of the 2016 Republican race and Ted Cruz has surged since he entered the race, but the race is just beginning.

The 2008 runner-up has scared off all serious challengers for 2016. Why?

Don’t say “climate change” or “global warming” if you work for Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection.

The debate over whether kids need to be vaccinated against communicable diseases baffles me.

The Republican National Committee is trying to bring some sanity to the Presidential debate process, but there’s no guarantee it can succeed.

Just one day into the new Congress, the first confrontation is already set.

Over the weekend, Mike Huckabee took another step that suggests that he is indeed planning on running for President in 2016.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is not running for President, and she is unlikely to change her mind on that. Nonetheless, the speculation that she is will continue for some time to come because it suits her interests and the interests of others.

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

Rick Perry is sounding for all the world like a candidate for President, and says he’s a different candidate this time, but initial perceptions are hard to overcome.

How will Republicans react if, as many expect, the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage across the nation?

Michele Bachmann leaves office at the end of the current Congress, but we may not have heard the last from her.

Ben Carson is not a serious candidate for President, but he’s likely to get a lot of support from the GOP’s Tea Party wing.

A not unexpected decision from the Grand Jury that investigated the Michael Brown shooting.

Mike Huckabee seems to be making the moves necessary to run for President again, For reasons only he can understand.

A Presidential candidate’s health and fitness for office are legitimate issues. When it comes to bringing up Hillary Clinton’s age in the context of 2016,, though, Republicans need to proceed with caution.

There’s more to life than politics. Unfortunately, there are many Americans who don’t seem to recognize that fact.

Dana Milbank (“Obama’s big immigration mistake”) thinks so.

Not surprisingly, a law passed in the wake of the September 11th attacks has been used mostly for things that have nothing to do with terrorism.

Two Duke University academics make an incredibly weak, ultimately unpersuasive, argument in favor of eliminating midterm elections by changing the length of Congressional terms.

Would increasing the size of the House of Representatives be the cure for what ails Congress?

Pope Francis restates something the Catholic Church has taught for a long time and, again, the American media thinks its something new and revolutionary.

In many states, there aren’t really any races at all this year even if both parties have candidates on the ballot.

Early voting is a still new idea in the United States, but one that has quickly spread to a majority of states. But, is it a good idea?

For the ninth time since 1974, the next Governor of Maine will likely be elected with less than 50% of the vote.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

As we head into a new conflict, perhaps we ought to give more thought to fiscal issues than the President is to overall strategy.

If recent polling is to be believed, the bid for Scottish independence is going to go down in flames.

The current immigration debate is yet another great example of how our system works (so to speak).

In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.

It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.

The Texas Senator is threatening to block any bill dealing with the border crisis that doesn’t defund the relief President Obama granted to children of illegal immigrants last year.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.

Could a transcription error be changing our understanding of America’s founding document?

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

A setback for supporters of Rand Paul in the Hawkeye State.