Outside the Beltway

The inevitable response to announcements by the big box stores that they would not sell guns to those under 21 has arrived.

He did what many had thought humanly impossible in running a sub-4 minute mile in 1954 and followed that with a brilliant career in medicine.

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

President Trump’s job approval hits a new low.

More than a dozen companies have ended relationships with the gun rights organization and protesters are demanding more follow suit.

He had more than three dozen Top 40 pop hits through the 1950s and early ’60s, among them ”Blueberry Hill,” ”Ain’t It a Shame,” “I’m Walkin’,” “Blue Monday” and “Walkin’ to New Orleans.”

Contrary to reports, Secretary of Defense Mattis is not defying the President on his order to bar transgender Americans from serving in the military.

Republicans now face a stark choice.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

Minnesota Senator Al Franken says he’s not running for President. Is this a real denial, or a non-denial denial, though?

As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump continues to suffer from bad poll numbers.

Ben Carson is back and he’s saying some pretty dumb things again.

Another day, another round of reports about contacts with Russian officials and people close to President Trump.

Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

A horrific night in Dallas.

The most underrated superstar of this era has passed a special milestone, albeit with a big asterisk.

A country music legend has passed.

The flagship of the American right is leading the charge against Donald Trump, but it’s not likely to work.

Different criteria than in the past, but there may not be much of a change in the participants.

Massive boycotts and protests likely spell the end of Tim Wolfe’s tenure as president.

Marco Rubio is taking heat for missing a lot of Senate votes since he started running for President, but he’s not really any worse than other legislators who have run for President.

Rand Paul’s fundraising in the just completed quarter is disappointing enough that it’s clearly time for him to consider calling it a day.

The criteria for next month’s third Republican Presidential debate have been announced, and they’re likely to end up being bad news for several Republican candidates.

The Defense Department is working to fully integrate transgender troops.

Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.

Donald Trump leads in a new national poll, but a deeper look at the numbers suggests that this Trump Bubble can’t last for very much longer.

It could cost you $250 to say “F- Arlington” if you happen to be in Arlington when you say it.

House Republicans are set to vote on a bill banning abortion in almost all cases after twenty weeks. What they can’t do is explain where the Constitution gives Congress the power to do this.

For reasons only he can understand. South Carolina’s senior Senator will be entering the race for the White House early next month.

The most ‘America’ story ever.

Rand Paul is carrying on a family tradition, winning the CPAC straw poll won many times by his father Ron.

Pope Francis continues his world tour and has issued a paradox from his private jet.

In the end, there appears to be very little, if anything, the GOP can do to stop or roll back the executive actions the President will announce Thursday evening.

Former Senator Jim Webb is the first Democrat to kinda, sorta, throw his hat into the ring for 2016.

A new poll provides some interesting context to the political context to the President’s expected executive action on immigration.

A new poll shows that Americans would prefer President Obama to wait to act on immigration until after the new Congress has had a chance to act on the issue.

Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.

The nation’s newspaper of record is slashing its reporting team.

The Army brass is worried about its diversity in critical mid-level posts.

It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.

A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?

Thanks largely to Administration mistakes, the Bergdahl deal is not going over well.

The NBA wants to get rid of Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, too.