Outside the Beltway

The longtime conservative blogger is gone at 65.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

The Supreme Court sent a signal yesterday that seems to indicate how it might deal with future abortion law challenges and it doesn’t bode well for pro-lifers.

Pope Francis defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after decades of allegations of abuse of young boys and seminarians.

Several states are getting rid of caucuses in favor of primaries, a move that could be to the disadvantage of candidates like Bernie Sanders.

Mia Love, recently narrowly defeated in her bid for re-election, has some parting words for her party. They probably won’t listen, but they should.

Congressman Keith Ellison appears to be falling behind in the race to be Minnesota’s next Attorney General.

New Generic Congressional Ballot polls have good news for Democrats.

In what amounts to a significant, albeit not surprising, change in Catholic doctrine, Pope Francis has declared that the death penalty is unacceptable in all circumstances.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces what could be a scandal that will quickly push him out of office.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

At least one red state Democrat will be voting against Gina Haspel.

As expected, a Republican won the Special Election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, but it’s not a win Republicans should really be celebrating.

As expected, Minnesota’s Governor has named his Lt. Governor to replace Al Franken in the Senate.

May’s Jobs Report was mediocre, suggesting that the economy may be stagnating.

Economic growth in the first quarter wasn’t as bad as first estimated, but it still wasn’t very good. And the future is unclear at best.

The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is hinting at a new Supreme Court vacancy this summer.

After starting the year with two good months, the jobs report for March was quite disappointing.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

A new poll shows that public opinion about Donald Trump is at the lowest point its been since he entered the race. That bodes poorly for Trump, and for the the political party that has chosen to nominate him for President.

Bill Kristol’s plan to stop Donald Trump involves a long shot independent bid for the White House by someone most Americans have never heard of before.

It may be the talk of Washington, but the political fight over Justice Scalia’s vacant Supreme Court seat does not seem to be something voters care very much about.

This year’s Nevada Caucuses are a good argument for why there should not be any more caucuses.

At least one DHS official seems to be against the idea of using no-fly list to stop people from buying firearms.

Ben Carson threatens to leave the GOP over recent reports about plans for a brokered convention, but with his poll numbers collapsing one wonders why anyone would care if he did.

Donald Trump is back to hurling insults at his opponents, but it’s unlikely his supporters are going to care.

The head of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has resigned in the wake of criminal charges for covering up sexual abuse of children.

So much for freedom of speech.

One more on this topic.

Several Tea Party backed Members of Congress claim to be challenging John Boehner in tomorrow’s vote for Speaker. They are, of course, delusional.

As the second anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School approaches, a new poll finds that more Americans support gun rights than gun control.

The fact that a candidate like Mike Huckabee could win the Iowa Caucuses is the reason to end the Iowa Caucuses.

Recent polls notwithstanding, Republicans and Democrats remain largely in lockstep when it comes to U.S. policy toward Israel.

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.

Iraq continues to fall apart.

A case out of Louisiana raises serious First Amendment issues.

Once again, Republicans are attacking someone for doing a job the Bill of Rights itself makes necessary and important.

Brian Schweitzer has a reputation for saying things that most politicians wouldn’t, but that may be just what he needs to get attention if he runs in 2016.

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

A surprisingly disappointing jobs report for December.

The “paper of record” joins the call for some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.

The President is neither messiah nor devil, and the media does the public no favors when it treats him as either.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

Imagine all these people talking on the cellphones during a long flight, or even a short one.

A plan finally starting to come together?

Are these four men our last, best hope for a deal that will end the shutdown and avoid breaching the debt ceiling?

Who should qualify as a “journalist” for purposes of a “Shield Law?”