Outside the Beltway

Jim Nabors, who became famous as Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle USMC, has died at the age of  87.

North Korea tests another missile, and sends another message to the United States and its allies in Asia and the Pacific.

On North Korea, there are two options, deterrence and war. And only one of those options makes sense.

Federal Courts continue to rule against the Administration, and the President continues to lash out at Judges and demonstrate his contempt for the Rule Of Law.

Donald Trump’s entire modus operandi involves pushing divisive cultural hot buttons.

Two Federal Judges have issued orders blocking the latest version of President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

The District of Columbia has decided not to risk an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down its restrictive concealed-carry law.

At some point, it will be time to move on.

The Trump Administration has suffered another Court defeat related to the President’s Muslim Travel Ban.

The pardoning of Joe Arpaio was distasteful and an affront to the Rule of Law, but it was completely within the powers of the President and should not be a ground for impeachment.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

Another escalation on the Korean peninsula.

More provocation from Pyongyang.

In a decision that hands a victory to both sides, the Supreme Court has partly upheld, and partly lifted, the stay on President Trump’s Executive Order that banned travel from six majority-Muslim nations.

The Trump Administration’s Muslim Travel Ban suffers another defeat at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Puerto Rican voters voted overwhelmingly for statehood yesterday in a referendum whose legitimacy is being questioned due to boycotts by opposition parties.

R.I.P., Caped Crusader

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

Another day in Court for President Trump’s Muslim ban.

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, nearly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of legal marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans.

Soon visitors to the White House will be able to see Donald Trump’s “yuge” election win on display for all to see.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

As expected, Senate Republicans invoked the so-called ‘nuclear option’ to move the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch forward to a final vote on Friday.

Two more losses for the Trump Administration.

South Korea removes a corrupt leader by peaceful means.

Hawaii is the first state to challenge the Trump Administration’s revised Muslim travel ban.

Travel industry experts are reporting a noticeable drop in international travel and tourism since Donald Trump was elected President.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

While hardly the most compelling argument against an archaic institution, yesterday’s silliness was noteworthy.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

A golf legend passes away.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

Remember Peak Oil? Whatever happened to that idea?

A New Jersey judge, along with a Judge in Pennsylvania, is among the first to rule on the meaning of the ‘natural born citizen’ clause.

Bernie Sanders pulled off another win, but it puts him no closer to having a realistic chance of winning the nomination.

Bernie Sanders swept the Western Caucuses on Saturday, but Hillary Clinton remains in control in the delegate count.

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.

Another big night for Donald Trump puts him another step closer to being the presumptive GOP nominee.

It seems increasingly apparent that the only way to stop Donald Trump now is by trying to force a contested convention. It also seems clear that such a plan probably wouldn’t succeed.

Can anything restrain the North Koreans besides direct action by China? That’s unclear, but the new round of sanctions pending at the U.N. seem unlikely to accomplish much of anything.

Donald Trump is trolling the depths of the Internet’s conspiracy dungeons once again. This time to raise the largely absurd argument that Marco Rubio may not be eligible to serve as President.

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

North Korea’s mercurial leader now claims to have thermonuclear weapons, but analysts are saying this is likely braggadocios nonsense.

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