Outside the Beltway

Could the upcoming House Select Committee on Benghazi actually accomplish something useful?

So, this happened.

The Supreme Court may have just found a way to end the debate over Affirmative Action in education.

Wisconsin recently became the third state to criminalize revenge porn. Why is it still legal in the other 47?

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

An unsurprising result in a lawsuit that never should have been filed

The current Congress is on pace to pass fewer laws and bills than any since the end of World War II. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

The law of unintended consequences strikes again.

Once again the Affordable Care Act meets the Law Of Unintended Consequences

Once again, the Supreme Court reminds us that limiting political speech is unconstitutional.

Yes, the evidence shows you can trust Obama to enforce immigration laws.

Another victory for marriage equality. This time from the state that gave us the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on interracial marriage.

Don’t expect much out of Congress for the rest of 2014, or for the two years after that either.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

Another day, another delay

Big news out of the House of Representatives

Mitch McConnell’s hopes to become Senate Majority Leader could hinge on what happens in his own state and in Georgia.

John Boehner explains quite succinctly why nothing big is getting done in Congress.

CVS makes a business decision that is earning it kudos for the most part.

The House GOP leadership’s principles are a good start, but it’s unclear if they can make it past the anti “amnesty” crowd that seems to dominate the GOP.

The President’s sixth State Of The Union Address was fairly low-key.

Iran has promised to roll back parts of its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

There are some signs that there may be room to strike a deal on the extension of unemployment benefits, but it’s likely to require some drama on Capitol Hill before it happens.

From Florida, a small victory for Fourth Amendment rights.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

The “paper of record” joins the call for some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.

Has Speaker Boehner breathed new life into immigration reform in the House? Maybe.

Ted Cruz continues to act as if he hasn’t learned his lessons from the shutdown debacle

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

The likelihood of any action on gun control in 2014 is extremely limited

There’s a potentially fatal legal argument looming out there for the PPACA.

Once again, Chris Christie seems to be directly challenging the right wing of his party.

Once again, the Administration has unilaterally changed the Affordable Care Act.

A bunch of people talking on cellphones during a plane flight would annoy the heck out of me, but the government shouldn’t be involved in deciding if it should be allowed.