Outside the Beltway

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

The GOP has bounced back significantly from the lows it experienced after last year’s government shutdown.

President Obama is still insisting that his war against ISIS will not require American ground troops. He’s not being honest with the American people.

The Affordable Care Act is playing almost no role in the midterm elections.

Iran and the United States are on the same side in the fight against ISIS, whether they like it or not.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.

For purely political reasons, the Administration is delaying the announcement of new executive action on immigration.

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

Another Obamacare case is heading to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear if they’ll agree to hear it, or when they’d hear it if they did.

The U.S. and Europe have announced a new round of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but it’s not clear that the Russians will be motivated to change course.

What the West does in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine is largely up to Europe, not the United States.

Contradictory rulings from two Federal Courts of Appeal show that statutory construction isn’t a simple thing.

Rick Perry is sending 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to the border for no apparent reason.

Later today, President Obama will sign an Executive Order barring Federal Contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation. But that’s not even the most controversial part for some conservatives.

Yesterday’s events are likely to be a game changer, but how the game plays out depends largely on how Europe reacts.

The Texas Senator is threatening to block any bill dealing with the border crisis that doesn’t defund the relief President Obama granted to children of illegal immigrants last year.

Just some things to consider about Common Core standards.

A case pending in Federal Court in Washington, D.C. could pose new legal problems for the Affordable Care Act

My latest for The National Interest, “Europe’s Free Ride on the American-Defense Gravy Train,” has posted.

Jose Antonio Vargas was brought to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never left. Now, some are suggesting he should be deported as soon as possible.

That ball is in your court, Congress.

John Boehner’s latest political move is designed mostly to appease the GOP base, but it’s likely a non-starter from a legal point of view.

My latest collaboration with Butch Bracknell, “Ahmed Abu Khattala and the Miranda-Rights Question,” has posted in The National Interest.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

Americans disapprove of how the President is handling Iraq, but they don’t like what his critics are proposing either.

The Supreme Court has limited the ability of public employee unions to force people to join their ranks.

Is ISIS’s reach about to exceed its grasp?

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

For some reason, President Obama wants to arm so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

We’ve seen a notable number of 9-0 Supreme Court decisions this term, but that doesn’t mean that the side that lost was making an extreme or meritless argument.

The Supreme Court rules that Recess Appointments can only be made when there’s actually a Congressional recess.

A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.

The South Dakota Republican Party has officially endorsed the impeachment of President Obama.

Yet more adventures in bad records retention policy at the IRS.