Outside the Beltway

What looks like it will be the Senate GOP’s last effort on the issue of health care reform died less than a day after being put on the table.

With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.

Senate Republicans are back home and hearing from their constituents on health care reform. It’s not going well for them.

The Senate left for vacation without a viable path forward on health care reform, and the road ahead seems treacherous and hard to navigate.

The Senate GOP health care reform care bill faces a crucial week, and things aren’t looking good.

The Supreme Court rules that states cannot bar convicted felons from using social media sites.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

Republicans are saying that repealing the PPACA isn’t off the table, but practically speaking it probably is.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

An unsurprising win in the Pelican State.

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

Senior Republican Senators are throwing cold water on the idea of eliminating the filibuster.

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Evan McMullin’s quixotic campaign for President continues.

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

President Obama is being criticized for remaining on vacation while Louisiana deals with historic flooding.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

Another targeted killing aimed at police.

A horrific night in Dallas.

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.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

A group of states led by Texas has filed a suit in response to new guidelines from the Federal Government regarding the rights of transgender students.

The Elks Club Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Donald Trump is complaining about a ‘rigged’ delegate selection process, but the truth is that the fault lies with only one person, Donald Trump.

For most Americans, the debate over same-sex marriage is over and marriage equality has won. This would not, however, include the social conservatives who continue to have a much too vocal role in the Republican Party.

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

Bernie Sanders won two of the three Democratic contests last night, but he fell further behind in the delegate count any way and isn’t very far from being mathematically eliminated.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz split the wins on ‘Super Saturday,’ while Marco Rubio and John Kasich continue to struggle for relevance in the 2016 race.

The effort to stop Donald Trump seems likely to set off a civil war inside the Republican Party.

They haven’t gotten much attention, but there are five contests today as the 2016 nomination process continues to move forward.

Donald Trump canceled his speech at CPAC, but it’s unlikely to harm his campaign at all.

February’s Jobs Report was relatively positive, but there are still shadows hovering over the economy as we head further into the year.

A renewed internal GOP fight to stop Donald Trump seems to be doomed to fail.

As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.

Hillary Clinton still has a massive lead in South Carolina, and in the Super Tuesday states that follow.

A divided Supreme Court heard argument today in a case involving affirmative action in college admissions that is before the Court for the second time in two years.

Democrat John Bel Edwards scored an easy victory over Senator David Vitter last night in Louisiana, and Vitter announced that he’d be leaving the Senate after his term is up.

It’s Election Day in Louisiana again, and voters have the same crappy choices they usually end up with.

Syrian refugees have quickly become political footballs in the United States in the wake of the Paris attacks, and it’s become an exceedingly shameful display of pandering and fearmongering by a group of largely Republican politicians.

The initial responses of the Republican candidates for President to the attacks in Paris are about what you’d expect, but it’s far too early to tell what impact the events of the weekend will have on the race for President here in the United States.

Candidates who have been excluded from tomorrow’s Fox Business Network are complaining, but their complaints ignore the fact that polling is the best objective criteria we have to determine debate eligibility.