Outside the Beltway

Ted Cruz is holding the Senate floor “until I can no longer speak,” but he still won’t be able to stop the Senate from going forward.

The notion that the past has been fully settled is simply incorrect and our debates over symbols illustrate this fact.

History matters.

The one Republican currently polling anywhere close to Hillary Clinton is, unfortunately for the GOP base, Chris Christie.

Ted Cruz becomes a little more honest about his plan to “defund” Obamacare.

Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.

A shooting interrupts Washington D.C.’s Monday morning.

The House GOP Leadership didn’t endear itself to the Tea Party today.

Some Members of Congress are calling for a debate before any strikes on Syria. They’re absolutely right.

Once, against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes it clear she isn’t going anywhere.

Some thoughts on reform.

Reports of the death of the Voting Rights Act have been greatly exaggerated.

Unfortunately, our immigration debate is just plain dumb.

Alex Rodriguez and 12 other Major League Baseball players were suspended today for PED use. Rodriguez is the only one vowing to fight the suspension.

Ted Cruz is either being incredibly cynical as he deludes his fellow Republicans, or he’s living in a fantasy world.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are openly disagreeing with a proposed strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Obamacare isn’t repealed.

Conservatives are doing what they criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Forbes wins the day with “Phil Mickelson Wins British Open—And California Taxes It.”

How can anyone possibly support the death penalty?

There are many fallacies contained within the GOP’s insistence that immigration reform must begin and end with “border security.”

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

Texas has become the latest state to attempt to restrict abortion rights, and North Carolina isn’t far behind.

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.

Could Rick Perry recover from his disastrous 2012 campaign to become a viable candidate?

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around any more.

The future legal impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage was on full display in two cases out of Michigan.

The Texas Legislature is putting up its controversial abortion bill again, but don’t expect things do end the way they did last week.

An empty threat.

Doesn’t pass the smell test.