Outside the Beltway

The House leadership elections turned out about as expected, but we may be doing this all over again in five months.

GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy of California won the vote to replace Eric Cantor as the new GOP House Majority Leader. The question is who replaces McCarthy.

Signs continue to suggest that a GOP Senate takeover is likely.

A victory for Federalism and sanity in the War On Drugs.

Some polls aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

ATVs for liberty!

The line “don’t know much about history” comes to mind.

The Mason-Dixon Line says it starts in Maryland, but that no longer seems to be the case.

How did the west become part of the US?

It’s a bit too early for Republicans to be celebrating that Senate majority that so many people are predicting.

Adding paywalls isn’t stopping the decline of the newspaper industry.

Once again, the Obama Administration punts on the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Unlike David Vitter, he didn’t break the law.

JR is from Texas wants you to know that Texas is big. No, bigger than that.

A new poll finds that people in Illinois have an accurate assessment of politics in their state.

Thanks to favorable polling numbers and candidate selection, winning the Senate may very well be in the GOP’s grasp.

The votes are in. And the outcome is meaningless.

Mitch McConnell’s hopes to become Senate Majority Leader could hinge on what happens in his own state and in Georgia.

Only a tiny percentage of those in American prisons ever got a trial.

Former RNC Chair Ed Gillespie is challenging incumbent Senator Mark Warner for his Senate seat.

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

Time to start talking about lame ducks?

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

The Imperial Presidency didn’t start with Barack Obama, but his PPACA “fix” does much to expand it into questionable new territory.

A contrite President Obama offered a “fix” for one of the biggest problems that the PPACA has created.

When it comes to the unfolding conflict inside the GOP, Mitch McConnell seems to have fired an opening shot.

87.18% of the caucus is elected from safe to very safe districts and, therefore, the only real fear that they might have for their jobs would be at the primary stage.

Fifty years after the Stand in the Schoolhouse door, there’s another standoff with recalcitrant states on civil rights.

Several conservative groups have jumped on the bandwagon of what appears to be a controversial Mississippi politician.

Polling looks bleak for the GOP right now, but it’s unclear what that will mean a year from now.

Will the GOP learn the right lessons from the just-concluded showdown? That remains to be seen.

The iconic football program built by the legendary Eddie Robinson, is now a sad disgrace.

Nearly two-thirds of House Republicans voted for default. They lost.

The GOP’s approval numbers have fallen like a stone, but it’s unclear whether this will matter in 2014.

With just hours to go, the Republicans on Capitol Hill seem prepared to take a big political risk.

Republicans reportedly have another plan to get what they want on Obamacare and other issues.

The notion that the past has been fully settled is simply incorrect and our debates over symbols illustrate this fact.

Lindy Boggs, the Louisiana Congresswoman best known to many of us as Cookie Roberts’ mom, has died at the ripe old age of 97.

The GOP’s chances to take over the Senate became much better over the weekend.