Outside the Beltway

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.

Hillary Clinton has started to distance herself from President Obama on some issues. It’s an understandable strategy, but it carries many risks.

Obama’s first Secretary of State has come out against Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership.

With Russia now launching its own airstrikes in Syria, it’s become obvious that U.S. policy in the Syrian Civil War is irrational and contradictory. And Russia’s policy isn’t any better.

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.

Time is running out for Joe Biden to make a decision about running for President, and it’s still not clear what he’ll do.

With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.

To listen to many of the Republican candidates for President, it would appear that the lights have been turned out on Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

A Federal Judge has ruled that part of a lawsuit filed by the House of Representatives can go forward, but the legal battle is far from over.

At least on paper, Senate Democrats now have enough votes to block the Senate from voting on a resolution disapproving of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

Bernie Sanders continues to cause Hillary Clinton problems, and Joe Biden could cause more if he enters the race.

In a speech in Florida, Joe Biden spoke about his possible run for the White House, and gave a very big hint that he’s leaning toward staying out of the race.

Senate Democrats are now just one vote away from being able to block a veto override, meaning that the effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal will most certainly fail.

If the Administration gets its way, efforts to block the Iran nuclear deal may come to a quick end in the Senate.

Thanks in part to a slow summer news cycle, the speculation about Vice-President Biden entering the race for President seems to be reaching a fever pitch.

The reports about Vice-President Biden possibly entering the Presidential race continue to persist.

To lose something one has to have it in the first place. (It is pretty basic logic).

Like many Republicans, Jeb Bush continues to be willfully blind to the truth about the Iraq War.

The Iran nuclear deal will probably survive it’s test in Congress in the end, but Chuck Schumer just made the Administration’s job a little more difficult.

The low-polling candidates met in an early debate. It was about what you’d expect.

Donald’s Trump’s campaign is the logical conclusion of more than a decade of emotion-drive, substance-free politics.

Recent polling has shown the American public to be highly skeptical, at beast, of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That may not be enough to kill it in Congress, though.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

Get ready for another pointless political circus.

Reports are circulating that the Obama Administration is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard, and many are seeing it as an effort to placate Israel in the wake of the Iran deal.

The Afghan Army isn’t doing so well against the Taliban right now.

Good news for the President.

There are mutual embassies in Havana and Washington for the first time in 54 years. It certainly took long enough.

There’s another round of reports about Joe Biden running for President, but I wouldn’t put much stock them.

With the last legal hurdle to Obamacare cleared, “death panels” have made a quiet comeback.

The Federal Government is threatening to hold up plans for a new Redskins stadium unless the team changes its name.

The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to wade back into the thorny issue of race and higher education.

The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.

Was this simply ordinary intelligence collection? Or something more insidious?

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

In a case that took seven months to decide, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Presidency’s broad authority in foreign affairs, and inserted itself just a little bit in the thorny politics of the Middle East.

Hillary Clinton is taking a hit in the polls, but it’s unclear if that’s going to matter when 2016 rolls around.

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

Another step forward toward ending a U.S. policy regarding Cuba that was outdated twenty years ago.

The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.

The President’s plan to give deportation relief to millions of illegal immigrants has hit another legal snag.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

The Clinton Foundation has disclosed that there were $26 million in donations that it had failed to disclose while Hillary was Secretary of State.

Hillary Clinton has admitted she made a mistake in supporting the Iraq War in 2002, but there are plenty of other questions she needs to answer when it comes to foreign interventions.

President Obama is taking steps to reduce police militarization, but there’s much more that needs to be done.

What if this is the new normal?

ISIS has captured Ramadi, and revealed yet again how fractured Iraq actually is. Fixing that isn’t something that American aid or arms can accomplish.