Outside the Beltway

Another European capital is on edge over fears of a terror attack.

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

France launched its first attacks against ISIS even as the investigation into Friday’s attacks continues, but it’s not clear that the retaliation really accomplished anything.

Ben Carson and his supporters would have you believe that he is being subjected to unprecedented and unfair scrutiny. That assertion is completely false.

Houston voters rejected a broad anti-discrimination law largely due to a campaign that focused almost exclusively on concerns about transgender rights.

Two new polls show that political efforts to enact more stringent gun control at the national level are not likely to succeed.

September’s Jobs Report was disappointing to say the least, and calls into question the Federal Reserve’s apparent plan to raise interest rates in the near future.

After months of hinting that interest rates would be rising this month, signs of economic weakness led the Federal Reserve to hold back.

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.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is doing a reset in the face of declining poll numbers and bad press.

China adds to its status as the honey badger of intellectual property law.

A few days late, but a story worth noting if it has escaped notice.

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

Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.

The winners of the Women’s World Cup will get paid far less than the men that played last year, but that’s not because of sexism.

Pete Rose’s efforts at rehabilitation may have just been fatally injured.

So much for freedom of speech.

In a setback for the gun rights movement, the Supreme Court has let stand a San Francisco law that places tough restrictions on handgun ownership.

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.

The next shoe drops in the Dennis Hastert case.

Los Angeles became the latest major city to increase its minimum wage. It’s a risky bet that is likely to do more harm than good.

A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

Jeb Bush told a group of supporters that his brother is his top Middle East policy adviser. This strikes me as being a bad idea.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

Like nearly all of his fellow Republicans, Jeb Bush has adopted the disastrous foreign policy views that typified his brother’s Presidency.

Another case of teenagers ‘sexting,’ another dumb overreaction by law enforcement.

The intrepid foreign correspondent and editor Arnaud de Borchgrave has died, aged 88, of cancer.

Mitt Romney is set to make an announcement at 11 Eastern today. [UPDATE: He’s out!]

Rick Perry is sounding for all the world like a candidate for President, and says he’s a different candidate this time, but initial perceptions are hard to overcome.

The Supreme Court is set to decide if the state can deny a license plate with the Confederate flag design because it is “offensive.”

Not surprisingly, last night’s announcement that there would be no state court indictment in the Michael Brown shooting led to violence and confrontations with police. That’s not going to solve any of the real problems that face Ferguson, or any other community in the United States.

On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.

There’s more to life than politics. Unfortunately, there are many Americans who don’t seem to recognize that fact.

Dana Milbank (“Obama’s big immigration mistake”) thinks so.

Increasing the minimum wage proved to be popular at the ballot box Tuesday, unsurprisingly, However, it did not help Democrats on the same ballot.