Outside the Beltway

As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is the latest conservative to endorse the foolish idea of a Constitutional Convention.

The history of what to call the American Civil War.

Sailors will now be required to wait until 9 am to buy booze.

Bob McDonnell is not the first Old Dominion chief executive to supplement their income while in office.

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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

The US Postal Service is struggling to make delivery more efficient.

Potential trouble for Virginia’s Republican nominee for Governor.

Some interesting taking of sides is already taking place in the GOP Senate race in Wyoming.

The Senate may be headed for an historic confrontation today if an 11th hour deal isn’t reached.

The GOP’s chances to take over the Senate became much better over the weekend.

Tony Kornheiser celebrated becoming a senior citizen by playing a round of golf with the president.

The drip, drip, drip in Richmond is turning into a flood.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

The paramilitarization of American law enforcement has had deadly consequences.

James Holmes will be shackled like animal during his murder trial for no apparent reason.

The Court may have “punted” the Proposition 8 ruling, but it is likely to have a wide-ranging impact both in California and nationwide.

The 5-4 ruling was much more sweeping than needed to strike down DOMA.

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

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.

A major Constitutional ruling from the Supreme Court.

Not surprisingly, Edward Snowden has been formally charged in connection with the leak of classified NSA documents.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

An absolutely ridiculous criminal case out of West Virginia.

Scott Walker could be the GOP’s surprise candidate in 2016.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.