Outside the Beltway

The Afghan Army isn’t doing so well against the Taliban right now.

Good news for the President.

There are mutual embassies in Havana and Washington for the first time in 54 years. It certainly took long enough.

There’s another round of reports about Joe Biden running for President, but I wouldn’t put much stock them.

With the last legal hurdle to Obamacare cleared, “death panels” have made a quiet comeback.

The Federal Government is threatening to hold up plans for a new Redskins stadium unless the team changes its name.

The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to wade back into the thorny issue of race and higher education.

The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.

Was this simply ordinary intelligence collection? Or something more insidious?

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

In a case that took seven months to decide, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Presidency’s broad authority in foreign affairs, and inserted itself just a little bit in the thorny politics of the Middle East.

Hillary Clinton is taking a hit in the polls, but it’s unclear if that’s going to matter when 2016 rolls around.

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

Another step forward toward ending a U.S. policy regarding Cuba that was outdated twenty years ago.

The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.

The President’s plan to give deportation relief to millions of illegal immigrants has hit another legal snag.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

The Clinton Foundation has disclosed that there were $26 million in donations that it had failed to disclose while Hillary was Secretary of State.

Hillary Clinton has admitted she made a mistake in supporting the Iraq War in 2002, but there are plenty of other questions she needs to answer when it comes to foreign interventions.

President Obama is taking steps to reduce police militarization, but there’s much more that needs to be done.

What if this is the new normal?

ISIS has captured Ramadi, and revealed yet again how fractured Iraq actually is. Fixing that isn’t something that American aid or arms can accomplish.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has seen better days.

Iraq seems to becoming a political headache for yet another member of the Bush family.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.

Director of National Intelligence now tells Congress that he testified falsely about NSA spying because he forgot the program existed.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

There must be something odd in the water in the Lone Star State, because a bizarre conspiracy theory seems to have taken root there.

In a move that is clearly designed to have an impact in the General Election, Hillary Clinton came out in support of broad immigration reform in Nevada yesterday.

Former President Clinton doesn’t seem to get it. Or, does he?

Rand Paul bucks Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, Libya, and negotiations with Iran.

The Clinton Foundation’s foreign donations continue to be a problem for the Clinton campaign, and the story isn’t likely to go away any time soon.

U.S forces in Afghanistan have been involved in missions that go far beyond the counterterror mission the Obama Administration said they would be limited to.

A sharply divided Court heard argument today on an issue that has sharply divided the nation.

Far from being a positive, Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State provides ample material for those who would attack her over the next eighteen months.

Pot, meet kettle.

A series of mini-scandals point to the conflicts of interest around the Clintons.

Marco Rubio is often described as one of the GOP’s leaders on foreign policy, but a close look reveals a decided lack of substance.

Senate Republicans are working on legislation to fix the PPACA’s subsidies if the Supreme Court rules against the Federal Government in June.

Hillary Clinton’s political and personal baggage is likely to be a bigger problem for her than whomever her Republican opponent ends up being.

An attack on al Qaeda outposts in January resulted in the death of two hostages, but also resulted in the death of two high value al Qaeda targets.

A new report ties undisclosed donations to the Clinton Foundation to a Russian company’s acquisition of controlling interest in a major uranium mining company.

Not surprisingly, the Select Committee established by House Republicans to investigate something that has already been investigated multiple times, will be in operation well into the Presidential Election season.

New allegations regarding foreign government donations to the Clinton Foundation seem likely to become a campaign issue.