Outside the Beltway

Alabama has won more games at the Cowboys’ home field this year than the Cowboys.

A five minute segment on the O’Reilly Factor clearly underscores how intertwined he is in secular politics.

If you were looking for evidence that the race for the Democratic nomination is basically over, you need look no further than last night’s Democratic Debate.

A debate schedule that seems designed to limit the ability of viewers to see candidates, and other incidents, has led Hillary Clinton’s opponents to allege that the D.N.C. is favoring Hillary Clinton.

A Dallas man was kicked off a flight home from New York City because he had unknowingly cut off a flight crew member while going through a revolving door. This seems like a case of discretion gone way too far.

The Supreme Court has accepted a case involving a new Texas abortion law for review, the first abortion rights case it will hear in eight years.

My favorite sports team employs a thug.

Budget cuts mean it is now harder to get an ID in much of Alabama.

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.

Even taking the fact that he is the Republican frontrunner into account, Donald Trump is getting a disproportionate amount of attention from the political media.

A front page cover on yesterday’s murders in Virginia crosses the line from reporting to exploitation.

Low costs and regulatory barriers are attracting people to red states–thus turning them purple and blue.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry is going to be looking for that elusive second act in American politics.

Two men were killed last night before they could carry out what appears to be a planned attack on an anti-Islam event in Texas.

Ben Carson is running for President.

Former Hewlett Packard CEO, and failed Senate candidate, Carly Fiorina will be running for President for some reason.

Some are criticizing the President for not going to Paris for yesterday’s rally.

NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.

An American freed from captivity, and potentially huge changes in America’s diplomatic and trade relationship with Cuba.

The numbers on the Ebola outbreak are bad, but they aren’t as bad as had been feared.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

Much like the disease itself, Ebola panic seems to have disappeared as the midterm elections become ever more distant in the rear view mirror.

Good news that ought to quiet people’s concerns significantly, on the Ebola front.

A Maine Judge has largely rejected the efforts of the State of Maine to restrict the movements of Kaci Hickcox

The B.C.S. was far from perfect, and the College Football Playoff system will be, at best, only slightly better.

After an avalanche of negative commentary, the Governors of New York and New Jersey have modified their policy regarding quarantining people returning from west Africa.

The first person to be quarantined under the new policy announced by New York and New Jersey is raising concerns about the way she was treated, and whether the policy is even the right idea.

A new outbreak, or hopefully just an isolated case.

The N.F.L. and the British Government are both behind the idea of a franchise in London, but the idea doesn’t really make sense for the league, or the game.

As usual, politicians and pundits are helping to create a climate of fear and concern about Ebola that is not justified by the facts.

America’s “Patient Zero” doesn’t appear to have spread Ebola very far, but continued vigilance is called for. And, we need to focus on the part of the world where there really is an Ebola Crisis.

More Ebola news that could have a negative impact on public opinion.

One day after HBO, CBS announces its own streaming service. And the future approaches just a little bit faster.

We’ve become aware of failures in how we’ve handled the Ebola situation. The response is to figure out what went wrong and do our best to fix it, not to panic.

Another health care worker in Dallas is being treated for exposure to the Ebola Virus.

Sobering news from the World Health Organization.

A second case, and the first person to apparently contract Ebola on U.S. soil. But, that’s no reason to panic.