Outside the Beltway

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

Thirty five years after trying to kill President Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is close to being a free man.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

A freshman Member of Parliament was murdered today, and there may have been a political motive.

It won’t be a very good holiday season for Charleston Church shooter Dylann Roof.

Following in the footsteps of state prosecutors, Federal prosecutors have announced they will seek the death penalty for Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.

No trial for Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Robert Dear, at least not for now.

A Connecticut Judge has allowed a lawsuit against the manufacturer and seller of the weapons used in the Sandy Hook Shootings to go forward, but a Federal Law appears to make dismissal inevitable.

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.

The man who killed three and wounded several others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood seemingly admitted guilt and motive in a courtroom outburst, but questions about his mental capacity remain.

The no-fly list is a flawed, arbitrary mess that has kept innocent people from flying for years. Using it to deny people rights recognized by the Constitution is, quite honestly, insane.

Blaming political opponents for criminal acts they clearly didn’t commit or advocate isn’t a political argument, it’s demagoguery.

The news that the late football legend Frank Gifford suffered from the same chronic brain disease that has been diagnosed in many N.F.L. players in recent years, and the upcoming release of a new film on the issue, seems certain to increase pressure to protect players at all levels of football.

Massive boycotts and protests likely spell the end of Tim Wolfe’s tenure as president.

A new poll shows an up-tick in public support for some gun control measures, but gun control advocates can’t ignore the political reality that says those restrictions are unlikely to ever become law.

In the wake of yesterday’s shootings in Oregon, President Obama took the airwaves to offer the same empty rhetoric he has on this issue in the past, and to make the false claim that there are simple solutions to what is a very complex problem.

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

Four months in jail, no opportunity for bail, no trial, no access to mental health care. And, now Jamycheal Mitchell is dead.

Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,

A federal judge has ordered the people of California to foot the $100,000 bill for sexual reassignment surgery for someone serving a life sentence for murder.

In a twist fitting for an M Night Shyamalan movie, there is growing evidence that there was malfeasance by the co-pilot that resulted in a deliberate crash of Germanwings flight 9525.

There’s no excuse for the former NBC anchor’s lies. But there are reasons.

The families of many of the Sandy Hook victims are seeking to have the manufacturer of the AR-15 held legally responsible for what happened. While understandable, their lawsuit is misplaced and largely without legal merit.

A popular idea that does nothing useful while simultaneously violating the Constitution.

Big victories for advocates of marijuana legalization.

Just over one year ago, Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds was attacked by his son, revealing problems with our mental health system that have yet to be adequately addressed.

Mandatory quarantines are a massive violation of personal liberty. We ought to be careful in how, when, and why we impose them and who they are directed toward.

New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has made an incredibly weak argument in favor of his state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Could John Hinckley, Jr. face murder charges 30 years after his attempted assassination of President Reagan?

The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”

The tragedy in Santa Barbara will. inevitably, revive the same old gun debate. But can it ever evolve beyond shouting?

Yesterday afternoon’s shooting spree at Fort Hood appears to be a related to post-traumatic stress.

Being a public intellectual doesn’t pay.

Gun control has faded as a political issue as the memory of Newtown has faded, and that was entirely predictable.

Some 2000 veterans of World War II were lobotomized by the VA. That’s awful but not outrageous.

Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

Phil Carter draws attention to “The Vets We Reject and Ignore.”

Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.

A state of perpetual war is incompatible with good mental health and stable family relationships.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

Dr. Keith Ablow lays out the case that President Obama is conducting psychological warfare on us.