Outside the Beltway

SCOTUS has upheld the use of election commissions to draw Congressional district lines.

The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.

The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.

Virginia Republicans are deciding later this week how they will make their choice in the 2016 Presidential Race. And they may end up regretting their decision.

More Democrats are calling themselves “liberal” than they have in years. Republicans, too.

Whether Republicans are ready or not, Donald Trump is coming.

To nobody’s surprise, Jeb Bush has entered the race for President.

This should be the end of this story, but it probably won’t be.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

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

House Democrats defied President Obama on an important trade deal today, thus arguably marking the official beginning of his lame duck status.

Iowa Republicans may be a day away from putting the Iowa Straw Poll out of its, and our, misery.

Turkey’s governing party suffered big setbacks at the ballot box yesterday.

Hillary Clinton remains as much the inevitable Democratic nominee as she always has been.

Marco Rubio is the latest Republican Presidential candidate to have a problem giving a coherent answer to a few simple questions about the Iraq War.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.

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

Jeb Bush will not participate in this year’s version of the Iowa Straw Poll.

If a new campaign succeeds, Harriet Tubman could replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

Like most Republicans, Jeb Bush either fails or refuses to recognize what an utter, unjustifiable disaster his brother’s decision to invade Iraq actually was.

Two Republican candidates for President say that Republican elected officials should simply ignore the Supreme Court if it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.

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.

It’s complicated. And probably not a scandal.

Aides to Governor Chris Christie apparently think there’s still a way he can run a credible campaign for President, but it seems unlikely.

Carly Fiorina, who flopped at Hewlett-Packard and in her lone previous political campaign, wants to be the leader of the free world.

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.

49 “experts in governance and democracy” to call for nonsensical reforms to the presidential debates.

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

The press corps is already bored.

Seventy years ago, Harry Truman became President in the final months of a war. He wasn’t prepared for it, but most Vice-President’s after him have been.

The “racism” debate brought about by Barack Obama in 2000 is getting a spin-off.

Like nearly all of his fellow Republicans, Jeb Bush has adopted the disastrous foreign policy views that typified his brother’s Presidency.

150 years later, Abraham Lincoln continues to inspire us.

Another step forward for U.S.-Cuban relations.

So, she’s in.

The political media is breathlessly reporting on every event in a campaign that is just beginning, and voters aren’t really paying attention to it at this point.

Hillary Clinton continues to look more inevitable by the day, but Joe Biden doesn’t want to go away just yet.

Do we really want to put another first-term Senator with no executive experience in the Oval Office? Because beyond the mere legal requirements, it does not appear that Ted Cruz is qualified to be President.

Just in case there’s any question, yes, Ted Cruz is Constitutionally eligible to serve as President.

The president is the commander-in-chief of the US armed forces. He’s not commander-in-chief of the United States.

The 2008 runner-up has scared off all serious challengers for 2016. Why?