Outside the Beltway

Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is declaring war on Republicans in the Senate.

A complicated concurrence to Steven Taylor’s recent postings.

Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.

More evidence of apparent Russian-backed efforts to interfere in the election.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke yesterday with Senate investigators, and his answers raise more questions than they answer.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving New Jersey’s challenge to a Federal law outlawing sports betting.

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch even as it became inevitable that Republicans would be forced to invoke the ‘nuclear option’ to confirm him to the Supreme Court.

More fireworks on the second day of the questioning of Neil Gorsuch, but his confirmation nonetheless seems assured.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

The death penalty appears to be effectively dead in Delaware thanks to a decision by the State Supreme Court.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch will essentially recuse herself from making a decision about indictments in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

Regrets, he’s had a few…….

Another big night for Hillary Clinton, and more bad news for Bernie Sanders.

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

With voters in five states set to go to the polls, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to make significant progress toward their quest for a majority of delegates in their respective contests.

Hillary Clinton scored another big win in New York last night, putting her closer to clinching the Democratic nomination, and causing Bernie Sanders’ campaign to make even less sense.

As expected, Donald Trump scored a huge victory in his home state last night and now appears to be back on track to win the GOP nomination.

Is Ted Cruz really the only alternative to Donald Trump?

As expected, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both scored big wins in Arizona, while Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders both continued to win caucus states.

In 1992, Joe Biden said that no action should be taken on any potential Supreme Court nominations until after that year’s Presidential election. Sound familiar?

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

The Post Office is saying that it will not accept for mail any publication that includes ad for marijuana, even in states where it has been legalized.

Delaware has become the latest state to liberalize its laws regarding marijuana.

A new report finds that the problems at the Secret Service are far deeper than previously known.

Chris Christie has gotten the endorsement of the biggest newspaper in New Hampshire, but it’s not clear that this will have any impact on the race.

A new poll shows that the Tea Party movement is more unpopular than it has ever been before, even among Republicans and conservatives.

To the surprise of nobody who was actually paying attention to political reality, Vice-President Biden announced today that he will not be a candidate for President.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden may or may not be close to a decision about running for President, and he may or may not be running.

Vice-President Biden will apparently not be at the first Democratic debate, which may be yet another sign that he’s not running for President.

Senate Democrats successfully blocked a final vote on the Iran Nuclear Deal, meaning that Congressional debate on the matter is effectively over.

At least on paper, Senate Democrats now have enough votes to block the Senate from voting on a resolution disapproving of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

President Obama now has enough votes in the Senate, and probably the House, to ensure that Congress cannot block the nuclear deal with Iran.

Senate Democrats are now just one vote away from being able to block a veto override, meaning that the effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal will most certainly fail.

Thanks in part to a slow summer news cycle, the speculation about Vice-President Biden entering the race for President seems to be reaching a fever pitch.

The reports about Vice-President Biden possibly entering the Presidential race continue to persist.

The POLITICO gang report that a “Joe Biden strategy for [a] White House run [is] taking shape.”

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

Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

Just in case there’s any question, yes, Ted Cruz is Constitutionally eligible to serve as President.

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.