Outside the Beltway

Ben Carson and his supporters would have you believe that he is being subjected to unprecedented and unfair scrutiny. That assertion is completely false.

Public support for marijuana legalization continues to rise. As with the marriage equality movement, it’s obvious where this will end, The only question is how long it will take to get there.

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

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

Jason Kottke points me to Stan Carey’s summary of Jack Grieve’s study of regional variations in swearing patterns across the United States.

Donald Trump says he still doesn’t know where the President was born, but he’d rather not talk about that anymore.

If you’re under 21 in Hawaii, you’re still technically an adult but you can’t buy tobacco.

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling whose roots can be found in case law going back half a century.

The latest Census data show a changing America.

Some Republicans are trying to move their party in the right direction on marriage equality, but it’s unclear if they will succeed in the short term.

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

While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.

Third-party candidates in several states could end up having a big say in the battle for control of the Senate.

Trouble in paradise for two of Hawaii’s top Democrats?

Another Circuit Court of Appeals has weighed in on the marriage equality debate.

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

A big step forward for the challenge to state-based bans on same-sex marriage.

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

The May Jobs Report was fairly good, and it marks the end of a jobs recession that started six years ago. But things aren’t entirely rosy.

Market Watch presents this infographic of “the most and least expensive states to live in the U.S.

Sooner than one might have expected, Republicans are starting to battle over the issue of marriage equality.

Cowardice. There really isn’t any other word for it.

Blaming Obama for the security bubble he travels in is, in the end, a pretty dumb argument.

The fight for marriage equality takes another step forward.

Is 435 the right number?

The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

Lest we forget what the entire “Duck Dynasty” brouhaha is really all about.

A 17th state legalizes gay marriage. There’s no turning back.

Without a deal of some kind, it’s quite likely that Edward Snowden will remain beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement or some time to come.

Thoughts on the precursors to the events of 72 years ago today.

The state where the same-sex marriage battle began is just days away from legalizing same-sex marriage.

The battle for marriage equality has scored a number of victories in a short period of time, but that’s about to change.

Daylight Savings Time ends early on Sunday. Perhaps it should never return.

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.