Outside the Beltway

A gross miscarriage of justice.

A long overdue strengthening of a key alliance.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

A key planner of the Capitol riot has agreed to testify against others in exchange for a lighter sentence.

It’s easy if you try.

Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for a massive attack on an important Saudi oil facility.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

This could be a very big deal – unless it isn’t.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

There’s been far too much hysteria and hyperbole when it comes to ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws.

The Supreme Court, unsurprisingly, ruled that lying on a Federal form about a gun purchase is, in fact, a crime.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

Alan Dershowitz thinls the charges against George Zimmerman should be dropped. With due apologies to the good Professor, he’s wrong.

A news report today provides an excellent lesson in why all the rushing to judgment in the Martin/Zimmerman case is a mistake.

It’s time to let the legal system do its job.

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin met on the night of February 27th. Martin died, and a firestorm has erupted.

Peter Berkowitz has presented a flawed legal argument for attacking Iran.

Ron Paul’s newsletters are proof either that he’s a racist or a fraud.