Outside the Beltway

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

If nothing else, the Petraeus affair is teaching us a valuable lesson in just how extensive the Surveillance State has become.

If you thought the War On Terror might be over, think again.

Secret surveillance of American citizens has dramatically increased under the Obama Administration.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was sounding more like Rick Santorum than himself.

A victory for the proponents of Voter ID Laws in Pennsylvania.

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

Sometimes, we just ought to accept the fact that people have disagreements when it comes to hot-button social issues.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

In advance of tomorrow’s ruling, some pundits on the left are displaying some very odd views on the role of the law in American politics.

Rush Limbaugh may be a jerk, but he has a right to be a jerk.

The Republican candidates for President are blurring what should be a pretty clear line.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people manage to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that their political philosophy has massive support.

Supreme Court nominees were confirmed quite easily within recent memory. What’s changed?

Florida’s new law requiring welfare recipients to pass drug tests seems to clearly violate the Fourth Amendment.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

While it’s always dangerous to extrapolate too much from high profile cases to the system as a whole, the strange case of Dominque Strauss-Kahn practically invites it.

A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

Desperate women are finding some horrific ways to terminate their pregnancies. Some are being arrested for it.

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.

A look at history reveals that President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of DOMA is hardly unprecedented.

Should employers be allowed to ask for your Facebook login as a condition of employment?

A county in the far southwest corner of Virginia is the latest battle ground in the ongoing battle over the separation of church and state.

Virginia Thomas’s political activism is once again a political issue.

Ohio Congressman Steve Driehaus is suing a pro-life PAC for “defamation” and “loss of livelihood” over its role in his defeat in the 2010 Elections.

Complaints from Rush Limbaugh tthat the ACLU is ignoring the intrusions into America’s civil liberties by the TSA are completely unfounded.

Is the TSA groping passengers to force them into using intrusive scanners for which they’ve committed $173 million?

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

If there’s an area where our attitudes and behaviors have changed more radically in my lifetime than gender equality, I can’t think of it.

Are we nearing the point where presidents won’t be able to fill Supreme Court vacancies?