Outside the Beltway

Enforcing our immigration and drug laws comes at the cost of fundamental rights.

Republicans are trying to fight back against efforts to limit their ability to gerrymander Congressional and State Legislative Districts. It’s a fight they deserve to lose.

President Trump has told an astonishingly large number of lies since taking office.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

As has often been the case, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is arousing some degree of controversy, mostly because of the comedy or lack thereof.

With just over six months to go before the 2018 elections, the storm clouds are starting to gather for the Republican Party.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

Another lawsuit has been filed against Dick’s Sporting Goods over its policy barring gun sales based on age.

NRO’s David French offers “A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider.”

Combining universal and mandatory (and free) college-board exams with a program for targeting college recruitment of disadvantaged groups could–if coupled with a commensurate financial commitment by the state to such groups–go some distance in bringing more qualified economically disadvantaged groups into higher education. 

Recent polls have caused Republicans to become more optimistic about their chances in this year’s midterms. That optimism is both premature and misplaced.

Two Amtrak crashes in less than a week is newsworthy. It is not, however, a trend.

A newly released poll has encouraging signs for Democrats in 2018, but there are several caveats.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

That “Romney for Senate” campaign seems pretty much inevitable.

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

Your tax dollars at work.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

The longest-serving member of the House has retired amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in what could end up being a landmark case on the issue of the scope of Fourth Amendment rights in the 21st Century.

The latest domino to fall in the ongoing wave of sexual harassment and abuse revelations is Matt Lauer.

The early numbers in the battle to control Congress look good for Democrats, but there are are a number of caveats to keep in mind.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.

Will Joe Biden be ‘tan, rested, and ready’ enough to take on 2020?

One of the few Republicans willing to speak out against Donald Trump is retiring at the end of his current term.

A recent uptick in retirements from Congressional Republicans is leading some Republicans to become concerned about the party’s prospects in 2018.

Hillary Clinton delivers the most obvious news ever.

Democrats and “Never Trump”ers shouldn’t count their chickens before they’re hatched.

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

A new study shows that Baby Boomers no longer account for the largest segment of voters in the United States.

President Trump delivered a wholly inappropriate political speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree, but that should surprise nobody.

Robert Mueller seems to be getting closer to the President, and the Administration is responding by seeking to undermine his investigation.

Nearly 200 Members of Congress and the Senate have filed suit against President Trump alleging that he is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone she can for her loss, except the most obvious suspects.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

Soon visitors to the White House will be able to see Donald Trump’s “yuge” election win on display for all to see.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

Senate Democrats are divided on how to approach the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, making it likely that he’ll be confirmed.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions apparently misled Senators when asked about his contact with Russian officials.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.