Outside the Beltway

Contrary to the White House’s arguments, negotiating over the debt ceiling is not at all historically unprecedented.

With just hours to go, the Republicans on Capitol Hill seem prepared to take a big political risk.

Even before the Russian curve ball, the public opposition to military strikes on Syria was mounting.

Heading into an intense week of Congressional lobbying, the odds still seem against the Administration on Syria.

With Congress coming back Monday, the prospective vote counts are decidedly against authorizing military force against Syria.

Given that the vote count seems to be heading that way, this is a question worth examination.

Things aren’t looking good for President Obama in the House of Representatives.

Lindy Boggs, the Louisiana Congresswoman best known to many of us as Cookie Roberts’ mom, has died at the ripe old age of 97.

ABC News selectively edited their interview with Juror B29 to give a false impression of what she said.

Juror B29 says George Zimmerman “got away with murder” but concedes he wasn’t guilty of murder.

Republicans aren’t happy with their leadership. The reason why is also the reason why Republicans are in trouble politically.

Another poll shows the President’s poll numbers dipping.

Three years after joining The New York Times, Nate Silver is jumping ship to Disney’s ESPN and ABC.

Forget about the budget deficit and spending. The Tea Party apparently now considers stopping immigration reform to be its most important task.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

So far, three weeks of bad news hasn’t really had much of an impact on the public’s view of how President Obama is handling his job.

What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

Would more information about the Benghazi attacks have changed the outcome of the Presidential election?

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

The politics of gun control is not nearly as easy as its supporters believe it to be.

Illegal aliens will henceforth be be called, well, something.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

A positive political climate for immigration reform.

A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.

Based on the polls, the odds of some changes to America’s gun control laws will become law. It’s unlikely they’ll accomplish anything, though.