Outside the Beltway

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

With voters in five states set to go to the polls, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to make significant progress toward their quest for a majority of delegates in their respective contests.

Hillary Clinton scored another big win in New York last night, putting her closer to clinching the Democratic nomination, and causing Bernie Sanders’ campaign to make even less sense.

As expected, Donald Trump scored a huge victory in his home state last night and now appears to be back on track to win the GOP nomination.

Is Ted Cruz really the only alternative to Donald Trump?

As expected, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both scored big wins in Arizona, while Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders both continued to win caucus states.

In 1992, Joe Biden said that no action should be taken on any potential Supreme Court nominations until after that year’s Presidential election. Sound familiar?

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79.

The Post Office is saying that it will not accept for mail any publication that includes ad for marijuana, even in states where it has been legalized.

Delaware has become the latest state to liberalize its laws regarding marijuana.

A new report finds that the problems at the Secret Service are far deeper than previously known.

Chris Christie has gotten the endorsement of the biggest newspaper in New Hampshire, but it’s not clear that this will have any impact on the race.

A new poll shows that the Tea Party movement is more unpopular than it has ever been before, even among Republicans and conservatives.

To the surprise of nobody who was actually paying attention to political reality, Vice-President Biden announced today that he will not be a candidate for President.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden may or may not be close to a decision about running for President, and he may or may not be running.

Vice-President Biden will apparently not be at the first Democratic debate, which may be yet another sign that he’s not running for President.

Senate Democrats successfully blocked a final vote on the Iran Nuclear Deal, meaning that Congressional debate on the matter is effectively over.

At least on paper, Senate Democrats now have enough votes to block the Senate from voting on a resolution disapproving of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

President Obama now has enough votes in the Senate, and probably the House, to ensure that Congress cannot block the nuclear deal with Iran.

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.

Thanks in part to a slow summer news cycle, the speculation about Vice-President Biden entering the race for President seems to be reaching a fever pitch.

The reports about Vice-President Biden possibly entering the Presidential race continue to persist.

The POLITICO gang report that a “Joe Biden strategy for [a] White House run [is] taking shape.”

There’s another round of reports about Joe Biden running for President, but I wouldn’t put much stock them.

Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

Just in case there’s any question, yes, Ted Cruz is Constitutionally eligible to serve as President.

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Not surprisingly a Federal Judge has blocked New Jersey’s latest effort to legalize sports gaming. As a matter of policy, though, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be legal to place wagers on sporting events.

All of the major sports leagues are trying to stop New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling. They should not be allowed to succeed.

Poor Joe Biden can’t stay out of the news. This time, it’s not one of his gaffes but one by his youngest son.

The courts have been striking them down at a dizzying pace since June.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.

Iraq continues to fall apart.

Another area where the law has not caught up with technology.

The Mason-Dixon Line says it starts in Maryland, but that no longer seems to be the case.

It’s a bit too early for Republicans to be celebrating that Senate majority that so many people are predicting.

Sooner than one might have expected, Republicans are starting to battle over the issue of marriage equality.

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

Thanks to favorable polling numbers and candidate selection, winning the Senate may very well be in the GOP’s grasp.

The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

A 17th state legalizes gay marriage. There’s no turning back.