Outside the Beltway

Filling normal vacancies on the bench is not “packing the court.”

The GOP’s latest investigatory crusade could end up backfiring on them.

The Supreme Court has ducked an opportunity to expand the holdings in D.C. v. Heller

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

Bill McClellan calls for ending military funeral honors for most veterans.

The Defense Of Marriage Act didn’t fare very well during today’s Supreme Court oral arguments.

Habemus Papam

George Will declares solitary confinement tantamount to torture.

The Fourth Amendment got even weaker yesterday.

Our politicians have averted an artificial crisis of their own making. The next one’s in two months.

There are very rational reasons behind the current gridlock on Capitol Hill.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good idea.

Seems that the answer continues to be “no.”

Not as much learning going on as one might like, to be honest.

Wherein I get a bit petty (but to make a point and, maybe just because it amuses me).

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

David Brooks tries to “describe what being a moderate means” in a way that most Americans would find puzzling.

Why is Romney bragging on education policies a Democrat would love?

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

John Sides argues that, contrary to popular conception, undecided voters are neither morons nor non-partisan.

One of Mitt Romney’s own supporters didn’t like his foreign policy speech very much.

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

There’s no doubt about it, our political culture is pretty horrible.

So, Mitt Romney opened his mouth again.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Mississippi is more conservative than Massachusetts is liberal.

Forbes media critic Jeff Bercovici is a bit late spotting a trend.

Polling racial attitudes and its linkage to support fro voter ID laws.

Alex Pareene’s quip that “Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals” has gone viral.

Antonin Scalia says Supreme Court justices have a collegial relationship and make decisions based on legal philosophy, not politics.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

“The average Canadian has quietly become richer than the average American,” claims a pro-Canada organization.

Add journalism to the list of professions Americans don’t seem to have much confidence in.

A new report will likely add fuel to the fire of conservative outrage over Chief Justice Roberts’ decision to uphold the PPACA.

If the GOP wins in November, there will be very few actual barriers in the way if they really want to repeal the PPACA.

So, we’re safe from that broccoli mandate, right?

There is another explanation for the sometimes confusing nature of the dissent in the ObamaCare case.

With the Supreme Court’s decision imminent, many supporters of the PPACA are starting to second guess the Obama Administration’s legal strategy.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.