Outside the Beltway

If the Administration gets its way, efforts to block the Iran nuclear deal may come to a quick end in the Senate.

Carly Fiorina will most likely be excluded from CNN’s prime time debate in September, so of course her campaign is complaining about rules that were established months ago.

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

Congress is set to debate the Iran nuclear deal next month, but as far as Europe is concerned the debate is already over.

Thanks in part to a slow summer news cycle, the speculation about Vice-President Biden entering the race for President seems to be reaching a fever pitch.

Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”

There are no “anchor babies,” there are only Americans.

Another poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Iranian nuclear deal, but the effort to defeat it in Congress is still likely to fail.

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.

It will never actually happen, of course, but some of Donald Trump’s fellow candidates for President have been eager to endorse his idea to abolish birthright citizenship.

Rick Perry’s campaign is already showing signs that it may not last long.

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.

Erick Erickson has disinvited Donald Trump from the RedState Gathering. What finally pushed him over the edge?

The F.B.I. seems to be looking in to just how secure. Hillary Clinton’s private email server was while she was Secretary of State.

Lindsey Graham recently retired as a colonel in the Air Force Reserves after 33 years of service. He missed most of the last twenty.

Recent polling has shown the American public to be highly skeptical, at beast, of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That may not be enough to kill it in Congress, though.

Donald Trump won’t rule out running against the eventual Republican nominee. Will the RNC use this as an excuse to try to force him out of the race?

Removing the responsibility to investigate police misconduct from the prosecutors who have to work with those police on a daily basis is a good idea.

Good news for the President.

The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.

Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is likely going to Federal Prison very soon.

The GOP’s Trump-induced headache isn’t going away any time soon.

He’s second in national polls!

The Federal Government is threatening to hold up plans for a new Redskins stadium unless the team changes its name.

When you’re being paid $65,000 to speak for less than an hour, you’re pretty much the poster child for privilege.

The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.

Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal enters the Presidential race today, but it’s hard to see how he even manages to become a plausible candidate.

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.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

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

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.

Hillary Clinton is taking a hit in the polls, but it’s unclear if that’s going to matter when 2016 rolls around.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who was refused a job because of her hijab.

The Iowa Straw Poll seems to be dying, and that’s a good thing.

Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

The Senate went home last night without passing a bill to renew the PATRIOT Act, which expires at the end of the month.

The Clinton Foundation has disclosed that there were $26 million in donations that it had failed to disclose while Hillary was Secretary of State.

A new Gallup poll puts support for same-sex marriage above 60% for the first time ever.

Rand Paul held the Senate floor for nearly twelve hours yesterday to talk about the PATRIOT Act, but it’s unclear if he accomplished anything.

With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.

The largely conservative state of Nebraska seems to be on the verge of repealing its law authorizing capital punishment.

There’s a better way to finance news than hiding it behind paywalls.