Outside the Beltway

Republicans competing to see who can be the toughest on crime

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

A stroll down memory lane.

Beto O’Rourke wants to use government policy to punish religious institutions that don’t recognize same-sex marriages.

With an eye on the trade war and the 2020 election, President Trump is increasing subsidies and mandates for corn-based ethanol.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Only the best people, dontcha know.

A big win for Federalism and common sense at the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the challenge to President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban. It didn’t appear to go well for the challengers.

The White House’s immigration plan is facing opposition in both chambers of Congress from moderate and conservative Republicans alike.

Two Federal Judges have issued orders blocking the latest version of President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

The Trump Administration’s Muslim Travel Ban suffers another defeat at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Donald Trump’s open contempt for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should disqualify him from being considered an acceptable candidate for President.

The flagship of the American right is leading the charge against Donald Trump, but it’s not likely to work.

I am having a hard time seeing a system of districts based on eligible voters and not simply population.

Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t forget to start a political fight with your family!

A collection of material that tries to separate the facts of the U.S. Syrian refugee screen process from the fear, myth, paranoia, and xenophobia.

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

Good news for the President.

The Supreme Court ruled that police are not entitled to access to a hotel registry without a warrant.

A critic of the imperial presidency becomes an imperial president.

A case pending in Federal Court in Washington, D.C. could pose new legal problems for the Affordable Care Act

There is no such thing as a consistent free market, limited government case in favor of restricting immigration, whether legal or illegal.

An appeal declined, but an issue that remains outstanding.

There’s a potentially fatal legal argument looming out there for the PPACA.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

Legislation to ban discrimination in employment against gays and lesbians is set to make major gains in the Senate.

A case out of New Mexico presents an interesting collision of First Amendment rights and anti-discrimination values.

Chief Justice Roberts is the only person who gets to say who sits on the FISA Court.

The notion that Megan McArdle is some sort of “Republican Party activist” is just nuts.

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.

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

Byron York reacts to a CNNMoney story titled “Government wants more people on food stamps” by snarking, “And Democrats reacted angrily when Gingrich called Obama ‘food stamp president.'”

The Founders would never have thought to do more than count people in the Census!

People are seeing irony where it doesn’t exist.

A legal dispute exposes an open wound.

The Obama Administration introduced a corporate tax reform plan that doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Yet more revelations about Ron Paul’s newsletters.

Some questions for opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.

The Republican candidates for President have apparently forgotten that this guy was their party’s nominee twice.