Outside the Beltway

The terror attack in Paris seems likely to undercut GOP efforts to use the DHS budget to attack the President’s immigration policies.

A Federal Judge has dismissed the first lawsuit filed against President Obama’s immigration “executive action.”

A Federal Judge has issued a ruling that sort of says that President Obama’s Immigration action is unconstitutional. Except it’s poorly reasoned, and apparently not legally binding on anyone.

With major theater chains having pulled out, Sony bowed to the inevitable, but now there appears to be proof that a foreign power is behind the Sony hacking attacks and threats of violence.

Hackers who have divulged embarrassing secrets from deep within Sony Pictures are now threatening violence if a film about a plot to kill Kim Jong Un is released.

As expected, the Senate passed the so-called “Cromnibus,” but not before a self-aggrandizing maneuver by Ted Cruz ended up being exploited by Democrats to pass outstanding nominations.

Despite opposition from both Republicans and Democrats, the compromise budget resolution passed narrowly last night, but not without some last minute drama

It looks like Congress has averted a budget fight for the second straight year.

The House approved a bill to protest the President’s executive action on immigration that will go nowhere. The question is whether it will placate the right.

Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.

It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.

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.

In the end, there appears to be very little, if anything, the GOP can do to stop or roll back the executive actions the President will announce Thursday evening.

The White House is now leaking out details of what seems like an inevitable decision by the President. How it plays out politically, though, is the big question.

There’s not much good news in the initial review of September’s fence jumping incident at the White House.

A travel ban sounds like a simple solution to a complex problem. Like most simple solutions, though, it becomes far less appealing when you think about the details.

ISIS at the Gates Edition.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

An inevitable outcome for the head of a once proud agency.

The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.

The TSA is up to its usual shenanigans.

Just when it became safe to keep your shoes and tablets on, a new threat to the friendly skies has emerged: toothpaste.

The Defense Department might open for business while the rest of government remains shut down.

TheTransportation Security Administration is expanding its purview to train stations and sporting events.

In the end, it doesn’t appear that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented by law enforcement.

Fort Belvoir blocked its workers from accessing the Washington Post website over concerns about classified information published there.

Effective immediately, Texans will have to show photo identification to vote.

Opponents of immigration reform are using “border security” as a shield to hide their true desire to kill the very idea of immigration reform.

The man some of called America’s toughest Sheriff has been dealt a setback by a Federal Judge.

Just how serious was the leak that the Associated Press reported on last May?

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

The Senate looks like it’s about ready to take up a bipartisan immigration reform package.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released from detention ahead of possible budget cuts.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

If nothing else, the Petraeus affair is teaching us a valuable lesson in just how extensive the Surveillance State has become.

President Obama’s immigration policy shift is legal, it’s good policy, but bypassing Congress won’t solve our immigration problems.

Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui.

No, the Obama Administration is not plotting to nationalize the economy in the name of some “national emergency.”

Apparently, people who work for the government are surfing the World Wide Web.