Outside the Beltway

The six Baltimore cops charged in the April death of Freddie Gray have been indicted by a Grand Jury.

Hillary Clinton is a deeply flawed candidate who might not even make a very good President. But that doesn’t matter in the race for the Democratic Nomination, and she’s probably going to be the next President anyway.

Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.

A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,

Ray Mabus is trying to make serving in the Navy and Marine Corps more attractive to women.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is insightful and eloquent. He’s wrong in this instance.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

The GOP race remains tight, but some candidates have benefited from their entry into the race more than others. Overall, though, Hillary Clinton continues to dominate.

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.

Kentucky has offered the Supreme Court a defense of its ban on same-sex marriage that seems laughable.

Once again, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren says she isn’t running for President, and has no plans to do so.

After nearly 20 years in office, Harry Reid announced early today that he would not seek reelection in 2016.

Ted Cruz kicks off with the first of what is likely to be a string of candidates getting into the 2016 race in the coming month.

The 2008 runner-up has scared off all serious challengers for 2016. Why?

Do the nonprofit’s foreign donors create a conflict of interest?

Reflecting a growing national trend away from the barbarity of capital punishment, the Governor of Pennsylvania has imposed a moratorium on executions in the Keystone State.

Mitt Romney is set to make an announcement at 11 Eastern today. [UPDATE: He’s out!]

With no real opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has no reason to rush getting into the race.

NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.

Not surprisingly, the F.C.C. has rejected a petition to ban the word “Redskins” from the airwaves.

Some on the left are suggesting Democrats should write off the South for the foreseeable future, but that would be as foolish as Republicans assuming that their dominance in the region will last as long as Democratic dominance did in the century after the Civil War.

The Food & Drug Administration’s new regulations requiring calorie and other information on menus in restaurants and elsewhere won’t work, could limit consumer choice, and may not be Constitutional.

The shocking has become routine. We’re no safer because of it.

The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11/2012 attack in Benghazi are not supported by the evidence. That’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind, though.

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.

The results of the 2014 midterms should teach us some lessons about how to handle and evaluate polling.

The Republican wave extended even to Governor’s races that, in any other year, they should have lost.

New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.

Yahoo has given a click-bait headline to a Reuters report, “Obama makes rare campaign trail appearance, people leave early.”

The Roberts court has been very good on First Amendment issues, but it needs to address the First Amendment issue right outside its front windows.

An inevitable outcome for the head of a once proud agency.

The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.

After success in Scotland, it may be time to consider allowing at least some teenagers to vote.

After 200 years, Francis Scott Key’s most famous work may have outlived its usefulness..

The Army brass is worried about its diversity in critical mid-level posts.

The firing actually hurts Janay Rice much more than it does Ray.

Dispelling a rising myth,

In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.