Outside the Beltway

Marco Rubio is telling conservative Christians in Iowa and elsewhere what they want to hear on same-sex marriage. It just happens to be complete and utter nonsense.

It’s Election Day in Louisiana again, and voters have the same crappy choices they usually end up with.

John Kasich wants the United States Government to create an agency to spread ‘so-called ‘Judeo-Christian values.’

Donald Trump’s demagoguery and disdain for individual liberty enters a new phase.

Not surprisingly, a new poll shows that most Americans are at the very least skeptical about the Administration’s plans regarding Syrian refugees.

Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee recently kept company with a very disturbing religious leader.

Republicans insist that uttering the words “Radical Islamic Terrorism” is somehow important in the fight against ISIS and other terror networks, but it is entirely unclear what doing so would accomplish.

Kentucky Governor-Elect is backing a change in state law that would eliminate the problems created when Kim David refused to issue marriage license to same-sex couples.

Meet Ted Cruz: Religious Bigot

You may not be aware, but your local Starbucks is the new front in the ‘War On Christmas.’

The Supreme Court is diving back into the debate over the PPACA’s birth control coverage mandate.

As Ben Carson rises in the polls, it’s worth noting his many examples of having what can only be called a very odd relationship with truth and the basic facts of history.

Up to 13 people are dead and as many 20 injured after another mass shooting on a college campus.

WaPo’s Robert Costa reveals an emotional reaction by the Speaker to the papal visit to Congress.

She’s where she’ belongs.

When did “politics” become a dirty word?

A Texas 9th Grader named Ahmed Mohammed was arrested because school officials and police refused to believe that the clock he built wasn’t a bomb.

Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis says she won’t interfere in the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

A new poll shows that the vast majority of Americans oppose Kim Davis’s refusal to follow the law, even while some Republican candidates rally behind her.

Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis is being released from jail, but it may end up being a very short reprieve.

A trial court Judge in Oregon is the latest public official to refuse to do his job.

Most of the Republican candidates for President would rather support a lawbreaker than the Rule of Law. The American people should judge them accordingly.

Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kimberly Davis was found in contempt of court and jailed for her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses.

The Supreme Court has denied a Kentucky Clerk’s request to stay a ruling requiring her to comply with the law and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

A long standing policy against gay Scout Leaders has been repealed.

The Igneous Is Bliss Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Relying on a particularly strained and incredulous legal analysis, the EEOC has ruled that laws against discrimination based on gender also bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

A County Clerk in Kentucky is being sued because she thinks she can refuse to do her job and still keep that job.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

Marijuana is legal in Colorado, but it’s illegal under Federal Law. Because of that, the Colorado Supreme Court dismissed a claim by resident who was fired when he tested positive for pot.

A new Michigan law allows religious-affiliated adoption agencies to turn away parents for religious reasons, and it seems fairly obvious what the target is in this case.

The head of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has resigned in the wake of criminal charges for covering up sexual abuse of children.

A new North Carolina law allows government employees to decline to perform their jobs by claiming it violates their “religious liberty.”

Americans are growing more tolerant of gays and gay marriage, with irrelevant exceptions.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been charged criminally for its role in covering up sexual abuse of children by Priests.

A new poll shows that Americans have moved to the left on a wide variety of social issues.

The agency that runs Washington D.C.’s mass transit has banned all political ads after Pamela Gellar attempted to run an advertisement featuring a drawing of Mohammed.

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

Marco Rubio seems to be in lockstep with the extreme social conservatives when it comes to same-sex marriage.

A woman discharged from the Marine Corps for violating multiple direct orders is fighting to the highest military court.

A new survey shows that Americans are becoming less Christian, and less religious overall.

Congressman Darrell Issa says that America’s poor are generally better off than the poor in the rest of the world. While he’s correct, he’s also incredibly tone deaf.

Unlike most world leaders, Pope Francis is wiling to call a genocide a genocide.

A new poll suggests that the American public does not support laws that give religious exemptions to businesses that want to discriminate based on sexual orientation.