Outside the Beltway

Recent polling has shown the American public to be highly skeptical, at beast, of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That may not be enough to kill it in Congress, though.

Chris Christie says he would ignore states that have legalized marijuana if he became President. Fortunately, he will most likely never be President.

After 30 years in prison, Jonathan Pollard will be released later this year.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

Reports are circulating that the Obama Administration is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard, and many are seeing it as an effort to placate Israel in the wake of the Iran deal.

Good news for the President.

The U.N. Security Council has approved the Iranian nuclear deal, and now the ball is in Congress’s court.

Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.

In the end, the odds that Congress can actually stop the new deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program are pretty low.

Depending on who you listen to, it’s either peace in our time or an epic catastrophe.

Rand Paul bucks Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, Libya, and negotiations with Iran.

Congress can’t really do anything to stop a nuclear deal with Iran, and John Boehner knows it.

After months of resistance, the White House will allow Congressional review of any deal with Iran, but it may not hamper negotiations much in the end.

Conditioning an Iranian nuclear deal on recognition of Israel is foolish, unrealistic, and very bad diplomacy.

One freshman Senator seems to think that war with Iran would be easy, just like Republicans used to think that war against Iraq would be easy.

Democrats like New York Senator Chuck Schumer could end up being the ones that scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal.

Scott Walker’s response to the Iranian nuclear deal is perhaps the most irresponsible so far.

The political media is breathlessly reporting on every event in a campaign that is just beginning, and voters aren’t really paying attention to it at this point.

The Iranian nuclear accords are barely 24 hours old and some people have already made up their mind about them.

Talks in Geneva have reached a framework agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear program that, if it’s complied with, appears at first glance to be about the best deal available under the circumstances.

George Will has come under criticism for pointing out what seems to be an undeniable fact.

There are many choices in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program there are many choices, but some are better than others.

The opponents of the temporary deal reached in Geneva have been making some ridiculous historical analogies.

Some Members of Congress are talking about pushing a bill imposing new sanction on Iran despite the deal reached in Geneva yesterday.

Small steps from both sides in the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but too early to say that we’ve reached a solution.

Thanks largely to France, this weekend’s efforts to reach an interim deal on Iran’s nuclear program fell apart.

Signs of some progress in the talks over Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

In another sign that things may not be going so well between Washington and Jerusalem, President Obama will not be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he’s in the United States.

A new IAEA report may make an Israeli strike on Iran in the near future more likely than it has ever been.