Outside the Beltway

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.

On the whole, a complete victory for advocates of same-sex marriage today at the Supreme Court.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

A thirteen hour filibuster by Wendy Davis ran out the clock on a special session of the Texas legislature, apparently defeating an abortion bill that passed 19-10 after time expired.

Effective immediately, Texans will have to show photo identification to vote.

The Supreme Court today struck down the most controversial part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The very definition of a miscarriage of justice.

The Supreme Court’s decision on Affirmative Action in education didn’t go as far as many thought it would, but it’s future in the near-term seems fairly clear.

Opponents of immigration reform are using “border security” as a shield to hide their true desire to kill the very idea of immigration reform.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court narrowly decided a case on the right against self-incrimination that is likely to do great harm to individual rights.

Why won’t the “women don’t get pregnant from rape” meme die?

There is only one serious candidate in the race for Frank Lautenberg’s old Senate seat, and he’s got pretty much no chance of winning the election.

A look at regional differences in American English.

Tax analyst Martin A. Sullivan finds that 1/3rd of “potentially political applications” approved by the IRS were from non-conservative groups.

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

Justice Ginsburg made some interesting comments about Roe v. Wade recently. Could they be a signal about where the Court is headed on gay marriage?

The State Department tries to scrub information about the 3D-printed gun from the Internet.

Long suffering fans of the Dallas Cowboys, including myself and Steven Taylor, have a love-hate relationship with owner-general manager Jerry Jones. cowb

The world’s first entirely 3-D printed gun is now a reality.

There’s simply no question that a person born abroad to a US citizen is a ‘natural-born Citizen.’

Is someone who’s only be a Senator for just over 100 days a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2016?

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

Legendary country music singer George Jones has died, aged 81.

The Senate’s rejection of the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill isn’t particularly outraging the general public, according to a new poll.