Outside the Beltway

Senate Democrats are now just one vote away from being able to block a veto override, meaning that the effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal will most certainly fail.

If the Administration gets its way, efforts to block the Iran nuclear deal may come to a quick end in the Senate.

Connecticut eliminated the death penalty several years ago, and now the state’s Supreme Court has ruled that the men remaining on death row cannot be executed.

Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.

Taylor Swift is taking a stand against Apple’s new streaming music service, and she’s largely right.

Despite a veto from the state’s Governor, today Nebraska became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Hopefully, others will follow.

After nearly 20 years in office, Harry Reid announced early today that he would not seek reelection in 2016.

Reflecting a growing national trend away from the barbarity of capital punishment, the Governor of Pennsylvania has imposed a moratorium on executions in the Keystone State.

The families of many of the Sandy Hook victims are seeking to have the manufacturer of the AR-15 held legally responsible for what happened. While understandable, their lawsuit is misplaced and largely without legal merit.

As the second anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School approaches, a new poll finds that more Americans support gun rights than gun control.

Outdated rules? It sure seems like it.

Despite speculation, both Angus King and Joe Manchin will stay with the Democratic caucus. And that makes sense for both of them.

The Republican wave extended even to Governor’s races that, in any other year, they should have lost.

After spiking in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, gun control has faded back into obscurity as an issue voters care about significantly.

Time to look into the crystal ball.

New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.

The die is cast.

Congress seems ready to avoid having to vote on expanded attacks against the Islamic State

The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.

Former Reagan speechwriter and gun control activist Jim Brady’s death has been ruled a homicide. No, there was no foul play involved—at least not recently.

Could John Hinckley, Jr. face murder charges 30 years after his attempted assassination of President Reagan?

To some extent, we seem to be becoming overprotective.

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

New York has joined nine other states and the District of Columbia to vote to for an Electoral College bypass.

UConn won another national championship. Their graduation rate remains embarrassing.

Was there ever a more tepid endorsement than “Joe Scarborough for President? Sure, Why Not?”

Demand for mid-range goods and services seems to be on the decline.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

Watch your language in Wilson County, North Carolina.

A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.

Time to watch a bit of true American exceptionalism in action.

Gun control has faded as a political issue as the memory of Newtown has faded, and that was entirely predictable.

Politics aside, the challenges to the PPACA’s birth control mandate raise important legal issues.

Amazon’s new deal with the USPS offers a way out of the agency’s problems if only Congress would give up its last bit of control.

The state where the same-sex marriage battle began is just days away from legalizing same-sex marriage.

A tense afternoon on Capitol Hill.

Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.

A gun rights victory at the ballot box in Colorado.