Outside the Beltway

A Supreme Court Justice says our laws and regulations are out of control.

Political grandstanding over dubious claims of privilege.

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

The psychologist who won a Nobel in economics is gone at 90.

A legal defense without merit.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

A pending lawsuit seeks to settle those questions.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

Oral arguments on the biggest abortion case in decades will be heard today.

Kimberly Webb Joyner, my first wife and the mother of my children, has been gone a decade.

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

Can we stop pretending these trolls and grifters are Republicans?

Should uncertainty be the default position?

The longtime OTB front-pager has passed far too soon.

The President is about to roll out another massive spending plan.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.

Bernie Sanders and other advocates focus on insurance companies and drug companies. But that’s not where the money is.

Only the best people, dontcha know.

Polling continues to suggest that voters in Virginia are not nearly as concerned with the past behavior of state leaders as the political establishment might be.

A new poll shows that Virginians don’t necessarily believe their state leaders need to step aside in the wake of recent scandals.

New polling in a bellwether Congressional District in Northern Virginia appears to signal bad news ahead for the GOP.

We may finally get a ruling applying the Excessive Fine Clause to the states and limiting the ability of police to confiscate property.

The Federal Government has fired another shot in the ongoing war over so-called “sanctuary cities.”

More than a year into the Trump Presidency, dozens of White House personnel lack proper security clearances.

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents came out for an an election that can only been seen as a strong rebuke to President Trump and the Republican Party.

The nation’s only competitive Governor’s this year appears to be going in favor of the Democratic candidate.

A Duke history professor uncovers “stealth plan” by “fifth columnists” who are seeking to overthrow democracy in the U.S. for their plutocrat masters.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Donald Trump’s open contempt for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should disqualify him from being considered an acceptable candidate for President.

The gun control regulations to be announced later today by President Obama later today amount to far less than the hype would lead you to believe.

He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.

Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.

Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.

Freedom of speech means freedom for all speech, even when it is racially offensive.

Apparently, law schools are in the business of coddling their special snowflake children now.

On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.

America’s “Patient Zero” doesn’t appear to have spread Ebola very far, but continued vigilance is called for. And, we need to focus on the part of the world where there really is an Ebola Crisis.

Another victory for marriage equality. This time from the state that gave us the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on interracial marriage.

Ramesh Ponnuru considers “The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans.”

Greg Jaffe has an outstanding feature titled “In one Army family, women in combat evokes two different perspectives.”

All eyes on Northern Virginia.

Once again, the Obama campaign appears to have an advantage among people who have voted already or will be voting before Election Day.

Sacrificing our principles in the face of mob violence is never a good idea.