Outside the Beltway

Repeal and replace is likely to take longer than many Republicans thought it would, but that shouldn’t be surprising.

After just over a week in office, Donald Trump already has a negative job approval number. That’s a modern record.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

Republicans sure have changed their mind about Vladimir Putin.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

A skilled comedian and unlikely leading man has passed away at the age of 83.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

Two cases quite a distance from each other, but in both police seem to be acting with a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ attitude, especially when it comes to African-American men.

Congratulations Cleveland! Next month, you get Donald Trump.

There are many aspects of the way delegates to the party convention are chosen that is “undemocratic,” but it’s unclear why this is a problem.

A series of bomb attacks across Brussels has left at least 26 dead, and dozens more injured.

Given the stakes headed into the latest version of ‘Super Tuesday,’ last night’s Republican debate was surprisingly subdued.

If Donald Trump is going to win in early states like Iowa or New Hampshire, he needs a ground game that will get voters to the polls. It doesn’t seem like he has much of one right now.

A potentially big complication in an already complicated situation.

The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.

America’s much touted international coalition against ISIS is, essentially a Coalition In Name Only.

Another day, another military escalation in the Middle East.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

In the wake of failure that could have been easily foreseen, the Obama Administration is ending a program to train so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

Yes, Ben Carson’s comments about the debt ceiling are silly, but it’s the fact that a lot of Republicans agree with him that’s dangerous.

The U.S. is set to ramp up its contribution to dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis, but there’s a lot more we can do.

Mitch McConnell spoke a truth that many conservatives are likely not going to want to accept.

China adds to its status as the honey badger of intellectual property law.

A little known Congressman from North Carolina has filed a motion to “remove” John Boehner from the Speakership.

If Jim Webb runs for President, he will be the only candidate in either party who is on record defending the Confederate Battle Flag. And he’s thinking of running as a Democrat.

Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.

Not surprisingly, the Select Committee established by House Republicans to investigate something that has already been investigated multiple times, will be in operation well into the Presidential Election season.

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

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

The intrepid foreign correspondent and editor Arnaud de Borchgrave has died, aged 88, of cancer.

A big change in an important nation in the most volatile part of the world.

For a year that started out with regaining long-lost territory in Ukraine, 2014 is not ending so well for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Once again, some people are upset because retailers are opening on Thanksgiving Day, but that’s only because people are coming out to shop.

The latest ISIS video is horrible and barbaric but we should not take the bait they are offering before considering the consequences of our actions going forward.

Another example of the silliness of the “trade deficit” concept.

A Federal Judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Tea Party groups over the IRS targeting scandal.

Corporal Jordan Spears died in a V-22 accident in operations against the Islamic State.