Outside the Beltway

From now on, you’ll just have to read it for the articles.

Another political earthquake in Washington as Kevin McCarthy drops out of the race for Speaker, and the House GOP doesn’t seem to know which way to go.

The man who will likely be the next Speaker of the House accidentally acknowledged the real motivation behind the Select Committee investigating, yet again, the Benghazi attack.

The Club For Growth has released two ads criticizing Donald Trump, so of course Trump is threatening to sue them.

The Republican candidates for President took to the stage last night for a debate that seemed to last forever and accomplished nothing.

Scott Walker used to have a commanding lead in Iowa, now he’s in 7th place. That’s just another sign of the troubles facing his campaign.

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

Ohio politicos are predictably unhappy about the decision to return Mount Denali to its rightful place.

A front page cover on yesterday’s murders in Virginia crosses the line from reporting to exploitation.

A reporter and cameraman for a local television station were killed, and a third person wounded, live on the air this morning.

Yesterday’s stock market drop led some Republican candidates to say some particularly dumb things.

While new information seems to come out on a daily basis, Hillary Clinton would rather that everyone think that her private email server wasn’t really a very big deal.

The buffoonish billionaire is tapping into something real.

Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his post-debate meltdown, now the only question is what the polls will tell us when they come out.

The fallout from Donald Trump’s debate performance, and his comments afterward, continues, and it’s leading some to wonder if we may finally be at the end of this ridiculous charade.

President Obama’s confrontational approach to opponents of the Iran Nuclear Deal ignores legitimate questions.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

Did Hillary Clinton mishandle classified information while Secretary of State? Two Inspectors General want to find out.

New Horizons got within just a few thousand miles of Pluto’s surface today, and the data it sends back promises to be amazing.

Depending on who you listen to, it’s either peace in our time or an epic catastrophe.

While “fundamentals” will have more impact on choosing our next president than what happens on the campaign trail, the race itself is important.

Good for her.

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling whose roots can be found in case law going back half a century.

As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.

With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.

Well, that didn’t take long.

Was this simply ordinary intelligence collection? Or something more insidious?

Nine people died overnight in a shooting at an historic African-American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

We live in a random and chaotic universe.

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

The head of the Spokane NAACP has apparently been lying about her racial background, and that’s led to a whole other argument.

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

Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.

I have been reading, mostly in passing, a number of pieces about an alleged new climate on college campuses in which students are raising significant complaints due to difficult or emotionally sensitive material. The latest example did not impress me.

The Senate passed a bill that renews, and modifies, the Patriot Act

The former Olympian has made a transition.

The New York Times really, really wants a horse race for the Democratic nomination.

Voters in Ireland have overwhelmingly approved a referendum legalizing same-sex marriage.

Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.

The Republican debate stage in 2016 is going to be even more crowded than it was in 2012.

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

Mike Huckabee’s back, but the 2008 magic is gone.

Two men were killed last night before they could carry out what appears to be a planned attack on an anti-Islam event in Texas.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.