Outside the Beltway

Hillary Clinton’s use of email while Secretary of State pretty much violated every Federal law and regulation on the issue.

For those of us old enough to remember, February 22nd, 1980 marked one of the great moments in sports history.

A Federal Judge has issued a temporary halt to the Obama Administration’s deferred deportation program, but appeals can be expected.

Reflecting a growing national trend away from the barbarity of capital punishment, the Governor of Pennsylvania has imposed a moratorium on executions in the Keystone State.

Some Congressional Democrats are considering skipping a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a Joint Session Of Congress.

The House voted to repeal the PPACA for the 56th time, but it’s clear that this vote will end up being a pointless as all the others.

By inviting Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress, Republicans are damaging the U.S. relationship with Israel.

Advantage: Hillary.

A big change in an important nation in the most volatile part of the world.

Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.

The State Of The Union Address was more of the same, and the same will be true of Washington going forward.

ISIS owns more territory than it did when the US bombing campaign began.

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

December’s jobs growth numbers were very good, but the numbers below the headlines show that there’s still work to be done.

The terror attack in Paris seems likely to undercut GOP efforts to use the DHS budget to attack the President’s immigration policies.

Just one day into the new Congress, the first confrontation is already set.

In the end, the Tea Party challenge to John Boehner was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

Some preliminary thoughts on the inaugural college playoff system.

The news cycle in 2014 seemed to be dominated by a series of real and phony “crises” that grabbed our attention for short periods of time.

The Commerce Department had a Christmas present for investors, businesses, and consumers today.

NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.

President Obama criticized Sony for backing down, and said that the U.S. would respond to North Korea’s cyber attack “at a place and time we choose,”

With major theater chains having pulled out, Sony bowed to the inevitable, but now there appears to be proof that a foreign power is behind the Sony hacking attacks and threats of violence.

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.

Hackers who have divulged embarrassing secrets from deep within Sony Pictures are now threatening violence if a film about a plot to kill Kim Jong Un is released.

An Oberlin College student makes it clear just why she needs an education.

Was Man Haron Monis a terrorist, or just a lone nut who had latched on to the rhetoric of ISIS to justify his own delusions? In the end, it hardly matters.

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

Sony is warning the press not to publish material leaked by hackers, but it doesn’t have much of a legal leg to stand on.

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

As the second anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School approaches, a new poll finds that more Americans support gun rights than gun control.

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

Judging by recent polling, the President’s executive action has hardened GOP opposition to immigration reform, making progress on the issue going forward much less likely.