Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court accepted a case that will require the Justices to decide just what it meant when it established the “one person, one vote” rule for drawing legislative districts.

Ben Carson is running for President.

Yet another study has found no link between autism and childhood vaccines. However, that’s unlikely to mean the end of the anti-vaccination movement.

Ben Carson doesn’t seem to know much about foreign policy or history. And he doesn’t belong on anyone’s list of serious Presidential candidates.

The debate over whether kids need to be vaccinated against communicable diseases baffles me.

The Army’s investigation of the disappearance five years ago of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been referred to a top General, who will decide if a court martial should be convened.

The Obama Administration took some fire yesterday for recent Ambassadorial Appointments, but the President’s record has been consistent with those of his recent predecessors.

Every member of the Supreme Court graduated from an Ivy League Law School. That kind of homogeneity is not healthy.

As things stand right now, there is no legitimate legal authorization for the President’s war against ISIS, and that’s largely because Congress has failed to act.

There’s nothing wrong with choosing not to vote.

Have digital books rendered the publishing houses obsolete?

Poor Joe Biden can’t stay out of the news. This time, it’s not one of his gaffes but one by his youngest son.

The next Attorney General will likely see their nomination taken up by Senators who will not be in office past December. That’s somewhat disturbing, but it’s become all too common in Washington.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

A good law has one rather silly unintended consequence.

Former Reagan speechwriter and gun control activist Jim Brady’s death has been ruled a homicide. No, there was no foul play involved—at least not recently.

Could John Hinckley, Jr. face murder charges 30 years after his attempted assassination of President Reagan?

That ball is in your court, Congress.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

Innocent men have been put to death on the orders of the state.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

Some thoughts on reform.

Hillary Clinton is getting offers from universities to add her name and presence.

Keeping 166 detainees in Gitmo costs taxpayers $454 million.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

CNN is reviving the Crossfire shoutfest with Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter, and Van Jones as hosts.

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

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.

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

Senator Rob Portman changes his position on same-sex marriage. Another sign of the times.

Robert Bork, the controversial jurist whose failed Supreme Court bid ushered in a new climate in American politics, has died at 85.

Want to teach political science for a living? Go to one of a handful of top schools or don’t bother.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

Some of the Harvard students accused of cheating are speaking out, and making allegations of their own.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

While it upheld the Affordable Care Act today, the Supreme Court also placed some clear limits on Congressional power. That’s a good thing.

Men who graduate elite universities earn an additional $107,000 lifetime. It costs $234,440 to get a Yale degree.