Outside the Beltway

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

Some on the American right have a very odd view of both Nelson Mandela and the Apartheid regime he fought against.

Could Congress actually pass some form of immigration reform before the midterms? Don’t bet on it just yet.

The Senate passed an immigration reform bill today, but it’s not going to go anywhere.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

With just about a month to go before we hit the “Fiscal Cliff.” things don’t look good at all.

Mitt Romney faces the same resistance to the idea of a Mormon President that his father did when he ran for President four decades ago.

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.

If Mitt Romney loses, could the Establishment GOP manage to hold back the conservative backlash? Don’t count on it.

The Obama administration admits its push for the “Buffett Rule” is not about dealing with our budget woes.

Expect plenty of GOP infighting if President Obama is re-elected next November.

Obama’s main politics are hardly as leftist as many make them out to be. Indeed, much of them could have fit well in the the GOP of 1990s and early 2000s.

A look at history reveals that President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of DOMA is hardly unprecedented.

President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of the Defense Of Marriage Act on appeal was a proper and appropriate exercise of his authority as President Of The United States.

House Democrats are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any litigation regarding the Affordable Care Act. It’s a phony argument, but that’s because it has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with legal ethics.

They aren’t going to stop, but the cliches that pass for debate sure are tiresome (plus some musings about the tax cut extension debate).

Not surprisingly, Elena Kagan finished her testimony without giving any real ammunition to the Republicans.

Elena Kagan’s interest in vigorous and open confirmation hearings ended roughly the moment she was sworn in by the Senate Judiciary Committee.